The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, כרך 10J. Nichols, 1813 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 3
... entitled " A true and per- fect relation of the whole Proceedings against the late most barbarous traitors , Garnet , a Jesuit , and his confederates , & c . " 1606 , 4to . Cecil earl of Salisbury , observed in his speech upon the ...
... entitled " A true and per- fect relation of the whole Proceedings against the late most barbarous traitors , Garnet , a Jesuit , and his confederates , & c . " 1606 , 4to . Cecil earl of Salisbury , observed in his speech upon the ...
עמוד 15
... entitled " Les perfidies à la mode , " in which are some agreeable verses , two or three characters well enough drawn , but not a single spark of the vis comica.1 COLBERT ( JOHN BAPTIST ) , marquis of Segnelai , one of the greatest ...
... entitled " Les perfidies à la mode , " in which are some agreeable verses , two or three characters well enough drawn , but not a single spark of the vis comica.1 COLBERT ( JOHN BAPTIST ) , marquis of Segnelai , one of the greatest ...
עמוד 45
... entitled " The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country gentleman , 1688 , " 4to . This was written in answer to a pamphlet of Dr. Gilbert Burnet , afterwards bishop of Salisbury , called " An Enquiry into the present State of ...
... entitled " The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country gentleman , 1688 , " 4to . This was written in answer to a pamphlet of Dr. Gilbert Burnet , afterwards bishop of Salisbury , called " An Enquiry into the present State of ...
עמוד 46
... entitled An Enquiry into the measures of submission to the Supreme Authority , " 1689 , 4to . The author of this inquiry was also Dr. Bur- 3. " Animadversions upon the modern explanation of 2 Hen . VII . chap . i . or a king de facto ...
... entitled An Enquiry into the measures of submission to the Supreme Authority , " 1689 , 4to . The author of this inquiry was also Dr. Bur- 3. " Animadversions upon the modern explanation of 2 Hen . VII . chap . i . or a king de facto ...
עמוד 47
... entitled " The Layman's Apology . " He wrote also , 12. " Remarks upon the London Gazette , relating to the Streights ' Fleet , and the Battle of Landen in Flan- ders , " 1693 , 4to . We hear no more of Collier till 1696 ; and then we ...
... entitled " The Layman's Apology . " He wrote also , 12. " Remarks upon the London Gazette , relating to the Streights ' Fleet , and the Battle of Landen in Flan- ders , " 1693 , 4to . We hear no more of Collier till 1696 ; and then we ...
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עמוד 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
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.
עמוד 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
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 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 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
עמוד 96 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in...
עמוד 472 - And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
עמוד 78 - He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.
עמוד 3 - ... so that your reproofs or commendations are for the most part neglected and contemned; when the censure of a judge, coming slow but sure, should be a brand to the guilty, and a crown to the virtuous.