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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 56
עמוד 8
... excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man of action and employment you seldom converse with , and then but with underlings ; not freely , but as a schoolmaster , ever to teach , never to learn . But if sometimes you ...
... excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man of action and employment you seldom converse with , and then but with underlings ; not freely , but as a schoolmaster , ever to teach , never to learn . But if sometimes you ...
עמוד 12
... excellent at making the best of a disgrace , that king James used to compare him to a cat , who always fell upon her legs . He was upon occasion a friend to the church and clergy and thus , when he had lost his public employ- ments ...
... excellent at making the best of a disgrace , that king James used to compare him to a cat , who always fell upon her legs . He was upon occasion a friend to the church and clergy and thus , when he had lost his public employ- ments ...
עמוד 13
... excellent use for the modern practice of the law , many of them containing matters in law , and points of great learning ; collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the stu- dious and learned professors of the laws ...
... excellent use for the modern practice of the law , many of them containing matters in law , and points of great learning ; collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the stu- dious and learned professors of the laws ...
עמוד 14
... excellent learning , wherein he shews how the common law stood be- fore those statutes were made , how far they are introduc- tory of new laws , and how far declaratory of the old ; what were the causes of making them , to what ends ...
... excellent learning , wherein he shews how the common law stood be- fore those statutes were made , how far they are introduc- tory of new laws , and how far declaratory of the old ; what were the causes of making them , to what ends ...
עמוד 42
... excellent draughtsman and engraver . He studied some time in Rome , and afterwards settled in his native place , Antwerp , where he assisted his father in most of his great works ; and afterwards published a prodigious number of prints ...
... excellent draughtsman and engraver . He studied some time in Rome , and afterwards settled in his native place , Antwerp , where he assisted his father in most of his great works ; and afterwards published a prodigious number of prints ...
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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.