The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 20Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... never was doubted that Languet was the author of this spirited attack on ty- ranny . It was often reprinted and translated into French . There are are a few other tracts attributed to Languet , but upon more questionable authority ...
... never was doubted that Languet was the author of this spirited attack on ty- ranny . It was often reprinted and translated into French . There are are a few other tracts attributed to Languet , but upon more questionable authority ...
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... Never man took more pains than he did in procuring donations and legacies , which he distributed with admirable prudence and discretion . He inquired with care if the legacies which were left him were to the disadvantage of the poor ...
... Never man took more pains than he did in procuring donations and legacies , which he distributed with admirable prudence and discretion . He inquired with care if the legacies which were left him were to the disadvantage of the poor ...
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... " Electra " had not much success , and was never reprinted , ' unless by a bookseller , who blunderingly inserted it among a collection of acting plays . In 1751 Larcher is supposed to have contributed to literary LARCHER . 13.
... " Electra " had not much success , and was never reprinted , ' unless by a bookseller , who blunderingly inserted it among a collection of acting plays . In 1751 Larcher is supposed to have contributed to literary LARCHER . 13.
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... never appeared in that work . In 1767 the quarrel took place between him and Voltaire . Larcher , although intimate with some of those writers who called themselves philosophers , and even favourable to some of their theories , was ...
... never appeared in that work . In 1767 the quarrel took place between him and Voltaire . Larcher , although intimate with some of those writers who called themselves philosophers , and even favourable to some of their theories , was ...
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... never received any adequate recompence . The college of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of doc- tor of divinity , and the diploma had the unanimous signa- ture of the professors . But his salary as a preacher was inconsiderable ...
... never received any adequate recompence . The college of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of doc- tor of divinity , and the diploma had the unanimous signa- ture of the professors . But his salary as a preacher was inconsiderable ...
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Seite 47 - Be of good cheer, brother," cried he, " we shall this day kindle such a torch in England, as I trust in God shall never be extinguished.
Seite 46 - God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.
Seite 93 - In our family he had left the reputation of a worthy and pious man, who believed all that he professed, and practised all that he enjoined. The character of a nonjuror, which he maintained to the last, is a sufficient evidence of his principles in church and state ; and the sacrifice of interest to conscience will be always respectable.
Seite 537 - His confidence that his own opinions were well founded approached to arrogance ; his courage in asserting them to rashness ; his firmness in adhering to them to obstinacy ; and his zeal in confuting his adversaries to rage and scurrility.
Seite 537 - ... he undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost vehemence of zeal, as well as a temper daring to excess. A gentle call would neither have reached, nor have excited those to whom it was addressed. A spirit more amiable, but less vigorous than Luther's, would have shrunk back from the dangers which he braved and surmounted.
Seite 536 - The other, warmed with the admiration and gratitude, which they thought he merited as the restorer of light and liberty to the Christian church, ascribed to him perfections above the condition of humanity, and viewed all his actions with a veneration bordering on that, which should be paid only to those who are guided by the immediate inspiration of heaven.
Seite 94 - Call', is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian...
Seite 536 - It is his own conduct, not the undistinguishing censure or the extravagant praise of his contemporaries, that ought to regulate the opinions of the present age concerning him. Zeal for what he regarded as truth ; undaunted intrepidity to maintain his own system ; abilities, both natural and acquired, to defend his principles ; and unwearied industry in propagating them; are virtues which shine so conspicuously in every part of his behaviour, that even his enemies must allow him to have possessed...
Seite 537 - In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually.
Seite 223 - Testament," in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, in answer to his Age of Reason, part II.