General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, כרך 10Robinson, 1815 - 484 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 2
... soon after the accession of James II . and having distinguished himself by his pulpit - compositions , was chosen preacher to the society of Gray's - inn . Whilst at Paris , he had obtained a copy of Bossuet's original edition of his ...
... soon after the accession of James II . and having distinguished himself by his pulpit - compositions , was chosen preacher to the society of Gray's - inn . Whilst at Paris , he had obtained a copy of Bossuet's original edition of his ...
עמוד 8
... soon after , in 1772 , removed to Warrington to take the post of mathematical tutor in the academy of that place . He there published , in 1775 , his " Doctrine of the Sphere , " 4to . containing many plates for the demonstration of ...
... soon after , in 1772 , removed to Warrington to take the post of mathematical tutor in the academy of that place . He there published , in 1775 , his " Doctrine of the Sphere , " 4to . containing many plates for the demonstration of ...
עמוד 11
... soon disclosed every secret . " He was so confounded with fear ( says Lord Clarendon ) that he confessed whatever he had heard , said , thought , or seen ; all that he knew of himself , and all that he suspected of others , without ...
... soon disclosed every secret . " He was so confounded with fear ( says Lord Clarendon ) that he confessed whatever he had heard , said , thought , or seen ; all that he knew of himself , and all that he suspected of others , without ...
עמוד 13
... soon distinguished himself by the great progress which he made in this branch of study . In 1737 he became adjunct of the philosophical faculty , and gave lectures not only on philosophy , but on many parts of the mathematics , and had ...
... soon distinguished himself by the great progress which he made in this branch of study . In 1737 he became adjunct of the philosophical faculty , and gave lectures not only on philosophy , but on many parts of the mathematics , and had ...
עמוד 15
... soon after , he received a letter from Sir Kenelm Digby containing two prize- questions proposed by Pascal , for squaring and finding the centre of gravity of some sections of the cycloid ; and though he had never be- fore considered ...
... soon after , he received a letter from Sir Kenelm Digby containing two prize- questions proposed by Pascal , for squaring and finding the centre of gravity of some sections of the cycloid ; and though he had never be- fore considered ...
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