Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, כרך 71836 |
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עמוד 227
... written by Counsellor Pooley and Dr Drake , and the strenuous efforts of Rochester and others to get up the well - known high church tocsin against the whigs . The archbishop did not long survive the coronation of George I . , - his ...
... written by Counsellor Pooley and Dr Drake , and the strenuous efforts of Rochester and others to get up the well - known high church tocsin against the whigs . The archbishop did not long survive the coronation of George I . , - his ...
עמוד 229
... written out at full length ; his ex- positions were also the fruit of very considerable research and mental 66 exertion . In the year 1699 , Mr Henry was thought of as a suitable person to succeed Dr Bates , then lately deceased at ...
... written out at full length ; his ex- positions were also the fruit of very considerable research and mental 66 exertion . In the year 1699 , Mr Henry was thought of as a suitable person to succeed Dr Bates , then lately deceased at ...
עמוד 232
... written by the Rev. Mr Samuel Johnson , chaplain to Lord Russell . Both treatises were extremely popular , and highly esteemed by their respective parties . From his character and connections , it is more than probable that Hickes would ...
... written by the Rev. Mr Samuel Johnson , chaplain to Lord Russell . Both treatises were extremely popular , and highly esteemed by their respective parties . From his character and connections , it is more than probable that Hickes would ...
עמוד 234
... written at the request of Sir Bartholomew Shower , and is a work of astonishing labour and erudition . This is followed by Sir Andrew Fountaine's Dissertation upon the Anglo - Saxon Coins , ' with ten plates of these coins . In the ...
... written at the request of Sir Bartholomew Shower , and is a work of astonishing labour and erudition . This is followed by Sir Andrew Fountaine's Dissertation upon the Anglo - Saxon Coins , ' with ten plates of these coins . In the ...
עמוד 237
... written above 500 years ago by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail , ' from the Arabic , and illustrated with figures , 8vo . The design of the author , who was a Mahometan philosopher , is to show , how human reason may , by observation and ...
... written above 500 years ago by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail , ' from the Arabic , and illustrated with figures , 8vo . The design of the author , who was a Mahometan philosopher , is to show , how human reason may , by observation and ...
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Addison Æsop afterwards appeared appointed attention Atterbury Bangorian controversy became Bentley Betterton bishop bishop of Ely BORN A. D. Calamy Cambridge celebrated character Charles Christ-church Christian church church of England comedy considerable controversy court Daniel Whitby death died discourse divine Dr Bentley Dr Clarke Dr Johnson Dryden duke earl edition eminent engaged England English entitled Epistles Essay father favour Flamsteed gave genius honour King Latin learned letter lived London Lord master ment mind nature never Newton occasion Oxford parliament person Phalaris philosopher piece poem poet political Pope published Queen received Royal society says scholar sermons Sir Isaac soon spirit St John's college Steele style success talents Tatler thing thought tion took the degree translation treatise truth university of Oxford verse volumes Westminster Westminster school whig Wren writings wrote
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עמוד 398 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
עמוד 275 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
עמוד 254 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
עמוד 356 - Dear to the Muse ! — to Harley dear — in vain ! For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend ; For SWIFT and him, despised the farce of state, • The sober follies of the wise and great ; Dext'rous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleased to 'scape from Flattery to Wit.
עמוד 439 - Auspicious poet, wert thou not my friend, How could I envy, what I must commend! But since 'tis nature's law, in love and wit, That youth should reign, and withering age submit, With less regret those laurels I resign, Which, dying on my brows, revive on thine.
עמוד 264 - A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage,' I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation. He was formed for a controvertist; with sufficient learning; with diction vehement and pointed, though often vulgar and incorrect : with unconquerable pertinacity; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause.
עמוד 264 - Durfey. His onset was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious...
עמוד 328 - His care of my education was such as might become a father, a lover, a friend, and husband ; for instruction, tenderness, affection, and fidelity to the last moment of his life ; which obligation I mention with a gratitude to his memory, ever dear to me ; and I must not omit to own the sense I have of my parent's care and goodness, in placing me in such worthy hands."] LETTERS OF MRS.
עמוד 241 - Miscellaneous Discourses relating to the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees.
עמוד 389 - ... breadth. There was a dial-plate at top with figures of the hours. The index was turned by a piece of wood, which either fell or rose by water dropping. This stood in the room where he lay, and he took care every morning to supply it with its proper quantity of water ; and the family upon occasion would go and see what was the hour by it.