The General Biographical Dictionary, Band 22Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... French histo- rian , of Irish extraction , as his name sufficiently de- notes , was born in 1721 at Salle in the Cévennes . He addicted himself very early to letters , and the history of his life is only the history of his publications ...
... French histo- rian , of Irish extraction , as his name sufficiently de- notes , was born in 1721 at Salle in the Cévennes . He addicted himself very early to letters , and the history of his life is only the history of his publications ...
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... French engraver and designer , particularly celebrated for a mode of engraving peculiar to himself , and of his own invention , that of forming a whole head by one line of the graver , swelling it in various places to produce the shades ...
... French engraver and designer , particularly celebrated for a mode of engraving peculiar to himself , and of his own invention , that of forming a whole head by one line of the graver , swelling it in various places to produce the shades ...
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... French and English.1 MEMNON , a Greek historian , who is thought to have flourished in the time of Augustus , wrote a history of the affairs of Heraclea in Pontus , sixteen books of which were abridged by Photius . They come down to the ...
... French and English.1 MEMNON , a Greek historian , who is thought to have flourished in the time of Augustus , wrote a history of the affairs of Heraclea in Pontus , sixteen books of which were abridged by Photius . They come down to the ...
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... French and foreigners ; and upon other days he frequented the study of Messieurs du Puy , and after their death that of Thuanus . By his father's death , which happened Jan. 18 , 1648 , he succeeded to an estate , which he converted ...
... French and foreigners ; and upon other days he frequented the study of Messieurs du Puy , and after their death that of Thuanus . By his father's death , which happened Jan. 18 , 1648 , he succeeded to an estate , which he converted ...
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... French , prose as well as verse , com- posed by him at different times , and upon different sub- jects ; among which is " La requête des dictionnaires , " an ingenious piece of raillery , in which he makes all the dic- tionaries ...
... French , prose as well as verse , com- posed by him at different times , and upon different sub- jects ; among which is " La requête des dictionnaires , " an ingenious piece of raillery , in which he makes all the dic- tionaries ...
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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 331 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 273 - ... elected one of the knights of the shire for the county of Huntingdon...
Seite 183 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal 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.
Seite 527 - Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away.
Seite 373 - Then did I further put him in remembrance of the Statute of Praemunire, whereby a good part of the Pope's pastoral cure here was pared away. "To that answered his Highness: 'Whatsoever impediment be to the contrary, we will set forth that authority to the uttermost. For we received from that See our crown imperial' — which till his Grace with his own mouth told it me, I never heard of before.
Seite 332 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 140 - A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages through several successive centuries.
Seite 230 - Simplicium Medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in Medicina usus est, Historia,