The General Biographical Dictionary, כרך 10J. Nichols, 1813 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 44
עמוד 1
... admired by the bench . It is not at all improbable that this might promote his being called early to the bar , at the end of six years , which in those strict times was held very extraordinary . He himself has informed us that the first ...
... admired by the bench . It is not at all improbable that this might promote his being called early to the bar , at the end of six years , which in those strict times was held very extraordinary . He himself has informed us that the first ...
עמוד 4
... admired particularly in that in which the other excelled . Coke was the greatest lawyer of his time , but could be nothing more . If Bacon was not so , we can ascribe it only to his aiming at a more exalted character ; not being able ...
... admired particularly in that in which the other excelled . Coke was the greatest lawyer of his time , but could be nothing more . If Bacon was not so , we can ascribe it only to his aiming at a more exalted character ; not being able ...
עמוד 12
... admired by judicious posterity , while Fame has a trumpet left her , or any breath to blow therein . " This is indisputably a just character of his writ- ings in general : the particulars of which are as follow . About 1600 were ...
... admired by judicious posterity , while Fame has a trumpet left her , or any breath to blow therein . " This is indisputably a just character of his writ- ings in general : the particulars of which are as follow . About 1600 were ...
עמוד 32
... admired him greatly . And here he strengthened his memorable friendship with Erasmus , who came to Oxford in 1497 , which remained unshaken and inviolable to the day of their deaths . He continued these lectures three years ; and in ...
... admired him greatly . And here he strengthened his memorable friendship with Erasmus , who came to Oxford in 1497 , which remained unshaken and inviolable to the day of their deaths . He continued these lectures three years ; and in ...
עמוד 35
... admired by sir Thomas More . With regard to some of his notions , he was an eminent forerunner of the reformation ; and he and Erasmus jointly promoted it , not only by pulling down those strong holds of ignorance and corruption , the ...
... admired by sir Thomas More . With regard to some of his notions , he was an eminent forerunner of the reformation ; and he and Erasmus jointly promoted it , not only by pulling down those strong holds of ignorance and corruption , the ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
עמוד 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
עמוד 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
עמוד 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
עמוד 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
עמוד 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
עמוד 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
עמוד 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
עמוד 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
עמוד 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.