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 73
עמוד 7
... having a large and fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . The When you would be observed , speech must be COKE .
... having a large and fruitful mind , should not so much labour what to speak , as to find what to leave unspoken . Rich soils are often to be weeded . Secondly , you cloy your auditory . The When you would be observed , speech must be COKE .
עמוד 11
... ness of a man's clothes ought to put him in mind of keep- ing all clean within . " He had great quickness of parts , deep penetration , a faithful memory , and a solid judg- ment . He was wont to say , that " COKE . 11.
... ness of a man's clothes ought to put him in mind of keep- ing all clean within . " He had great quickness of parts , deep penetration , a faithful memory , and a solid judg- ment . He was wont to say , that " COKE . 11.
עמוד 16
... mind of Sedan , lest the remembrance of his behaviour in demanding the queen's letter should re- new his anger . But the cardinal was so far from disliking him for his faithfulness to his late master , that he received him on condition ...
... mind of Sedan , lest the remembrance of his behaviour in demanding the queen's letter should re- new his anger . But the cardinal was so far from disliking him for his faithfulness to his late master , that he received him on condition ...
עמוד 20
... mind , he resigned his rectory of Chelmsford in 1547 ; and in 1551 his warden- ship of New College ; and the year following , his rectory of Newton Longville . After queen Mary's accession to the crown , he became again a zealous Roman ...
... mind , he resigned his rectory of Chelmsford in 1547 ; and in 1551 his warden- ship of New College ; and the year following , his rectory of Newton Longville . After queen Mary's accession to the crown , he became again a zealous Roman ...
עמוד 24
... mind so strongly with the certainty of an impending revolution , that upon that account he preferred remaining in England . His expressions on this subject are remarkable , but not uncharacteristic : " I did not like the plan of ...
... mind so strongly with the certainty of an impending revolution , that upon that account he preferred remaining in England . His expressions on this subject are remarkable , but not uncharacteristic : " I did not like the plan of ...
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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.