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..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1815 |
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... pieces of furniture , which he had procured with difficulty . From that time he had only three pieces of plate , no tapestry , and but a mean serge bed , which madame de Camois had lent him , having be- fore sold all the presents she ...
... pieces of furniture , which he had procured with difficulty . From that time he had only three pieces of plate , no tapestry , and but a mean serge bed , which madame de Camois had lent him , having be- fore sold all the presents she ...
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... pieces in defence of the bull Unige- nitus , in which he was much assisted by M. Tournely , professor at the Sorbonne ; and this celebrated doctor dying 1729 , the appellants then said that Pere de Tour- nemine directed his pen . M ...
... pieces in defence of the bull Unige- nitus , in which he was much assisted by M. Tournely , professor at the Sorbonne ; and this celebrated doctor dying 1729 , the appellants then said that Pere de Tour- nemine directed his pen . M ...
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... pieces , the principal of which was his " Letter on the Logos . " In 1733 , appeared the first volume of the second part of the " Credibility of the Gospel - history , " which , besides being universally well received at home , was so ...
... pieces , the principal of which was his " Letter on the Logos . " In 1733 , appeared the first volume of the second part of the " Credibility of the Gospel - history , " which , besides being universally well received at home , was so ...
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... pieces made their appearance ; of these the first consist of eight sermons , and brief memoirs of the author . In 1776 was published a short letter which the doctor had written in 1762 , " Upon the Personality of the Spirit . " It was ...
... pieces made their appearance ; of these the first consist of eight sermons , and brief memoirs of the author . In 1776 was published a short letter which the doctor had written in 1762 , " Upon the Personality of the Spirit . " It was ...
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... pieces , which remain in manuscript.1 LASCARIS ( JOHN , or JOHN ANDREW ) , called Rhynda- cenus , as Constantine was called Byzantinus , was a learned Greek of the same family with the preceding , who came either from Greece or Sicily ...
... pieces , which remain in manuscript.1 LASCARIS ( JOHN , or JOHN ANDREW ) , called Rhynda- cenus , as Constantine was called Byzantinus , was a learned Greek of the same family with the preceding , who came either from Greece or Sicily ...
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Seite 95 - Bees, he drew his pen against the licentious doctrine that private vices are public benefits, and morality as well as religion must join in his applause. Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious 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.
Seite 47 - 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 538 - ... feebler spirits, or such as are placed in a more tranquil situation. By carrying some praiseworthy dispositions to excess, he bordered sometimes on what was culpable, and was often betrayed into actions which exposed him to censure. 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 - His mind, forcible and vehement in all its operations, roused by great objects, or agitated by violent passions, broke out, on many occasions, with an impetuosity which astonishes men of feebler spirits, or such as are placed in a more tranquil situation. By carrying some praiseworthy dispositions...
Seite 39 - Latimer, saith he, speak out ; I am very thick of hearing, and here be many that sit far off.
Seite 538 - 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 137 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Seite 369 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Seite 538 - BUT these indecencies of which Luther was guilty, must not be imputed wholly to the violence of his temper. They ought to be charged in part on the manners of the age. Among a rude people, unacquainted with those maxims which, by putting continual restraint on the passions of individuals, have polished society, and rendered it agreeable, disputes...
Seite 95 - ... 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 world.