The General Biographical Dictionary, المجلد 31J. Nichols, 1817 |
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... philosophy which have an immediate connexion with the arts , and with medicine . He was distinguished likewise through his whole life by au uncommon sweetness of man- ners , and cheerfulness of disposition , which , still more than his ...
... philosophy which have an immediate connexion with the arts , and with medicine . He was distinguished likewise through his whole life by au uncommon sweetness of man- ners , and cheerfulness of disposition , which , still more than his ...
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... philosophy then in fashion in that university . And I took into the speculative part of physic and anatomy , as parts of natural philosophy ; and , as Dr. Glisson ( then public professor of physic in that university ) hath since told me ...
... philosophy then in fashion in that university . And I took into the speculative part of physic and anatomy , as parts of natural philosophy ; and , as Dr. Glisson ( then public professor of physic in that university ) hath since told me ...
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... Philosophical Transactions of July 1670. This was represented , as if he had vainly assumed to himself the glory of teaching this young gen- tleman to speak , without taking any notice of what had been before done to him by Dr. Holder ...
... Philosophical Transactions of July 1670. This was represented , as if he had vainly assumed to himself the glory of teaching this young gen- tleman to speak , without taking any notice of what had been before done to him by Dr. Holder ...
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... Philosophical Transactions . And " I have , " says he , " since that time , upon the same account , taught divers persons ( and some of them very considerable ) to speak plain and distinctly , who did before hesitate and stutter very ...
... Philosophical Transactions . And " I have , " says he , " since that time , upon the same account , taught divers persons ( and some of them very considerable ) to speak plain and distinctly , who did before hesitate and stutter very ...
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... philosopher at London , to his friend Lien - Chi at Pekin a spirited and elegant performance , chiefly on the politics of the day . It went through five editions in a fortnight . This year he set up a printing - press at Strawberry ...
... philosopher at London , to his friend Lien - Chi at Pekin a spirited and elegant performance , chiefly on the politics of the day . It went through five editions in a fortnight . This year he set up a printing - press at Strawberry ...
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الصفحة 436 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
الصفحة 69 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
الصفحة 119 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
الصفحة 440 - I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.
الصفحة 22 - ... enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; — viz., a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with...
الصفحة 266 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,
الصفحة 194 - ... the learned author of the Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope; a book which teaches how the brow of criticism may be smoothed, and how she may be enabled, with all her severity, to attract and to delight.
الصفحة 297 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver iis out of thine hand, O king.
الصفحة 36 - Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
الصفحة 396 - Being of an unambitious temper, and strongly attached to the charms of rural scenery, he early fixed his residence in his native village, where he spent the greater part of his life in literary occupations, and especially in the study of nature. This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford. Though several occasions offered of settling upon a college living, he could never persuade himself to...