The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Band 22Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... Latin , and Oriental languages , which formed the foundation of the Laurentian library ; nor was he less libe- ral in the encouragement of the fine arts . During the re- tirement of his latter days , his happiest hours were de- voted to ...
... Latin , and Oriental languages , which formed the foundation of the Laurentian library ; nor was he less libe- ral in the encouragement of the fine arts . During the re- tirement of his latter days , his happiest hours were de- voted to ...
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... languages . Yet his work on the elements of all the polite arts , was received by his countrymen with no ... Latin writer , was born in the province of Bætica in Spain , and flourished in the first century , in the reign of ...
... languages . Yet his work on the elements of all the polite arts , was received by his countrymen with no ... Latin writer , was born in the province of Bætica in Spain , and flourished in the first century , in the reign of ...
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... Latin classics , and on the sciences . About this time Reuchlin had made him a pre- sent of a small edition of the ... languages ? What quickness of invention ! what purity of diction ! what powers of memory ! what variety of reading ...
... Latin classics , and on the sciences . About this time Reuchlin had made him a pre- sent of a small edition of the ... languages ? What quickness of invention ! what purity of diction ! what powers of memory ! what variety of reading ...
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... language , and their just and liberal remarks on various to- pics , moral and literary . In 1747 he published " A Trans- lation of the Letters of Pliny , " in 2 vols . 8vo , which was regarded as one of the best versions of a Latin ...
... language , and their just and liberal remarks on various to- pics , moral and literary . In 1747 he published " A Trans- lation of the Letters of Pliny , " in 2 vols . 8vo , which was regarded as one of the best versions of a Latin ...
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... words in Italian . Baretti , however , condemns without mercy the Italian verses both of Menage and Reignier . Morhoff pretends that he has borrowed greatly from the Latin poems of Vincent Fabricius ; and several have accused him of ...
... words in Italian . Baretti , however , condemns without mercy the Italian verses both of Menage and Reignier . Morhoff pretends that he has borrowed greatly from the Latin poems of Vincent Fabricius ; and several have accused him of ...
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Seite 185 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Seite 154 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Seite 273 - Bernard, the second baronet at the time of his death, in 1669, was one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Huntingdon. The inscription upon his monument in Brampton Church is given in the Topographer and Genealogist, vol.
Seite 183 - Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs...
Seite 365 - Chelsea to be merry with him, whither on a time unlocked for he came to dinner, and after dinner in a fair garden of his walked with him by the space of an hour holding his arm about his neck. As soon as his Grace was gone, I rejoicing...
Seite 348 - Gentlemen, I can convince you by two reasons that I am not the duke. In the first place, I have only five guineas in my pocket; and in the second, they are heartily at your service.
Seite 366 - I wish to God you had been at Rome, Mr. More, when I made you speaker." — " Your grace not offended, so would I too, my lord...
Seite 238 - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart : I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
Seite 267 - PIERREPONT was the eldest daughter of Evelyn Duke of Kingston, and the Lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William Earl of Denbigh.* She was born at Thoresby, in Nottinghamshire, about the year 1690, and lost her mother in 1694.
Seite 241 - Most of them are the product of the leisure hours of a young gentlewoman lately dead, who, in a remote country retirement, without any assistance but that of a good library, and without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made use of, but the good morals and principles contained in those books, so as to put them in practice, as well during her life and languishing sickness as at the hour of her death; in short, she died not only like...