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], 1817 |
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... Latin ; fewer still that would make one think him acquainted with the Greek poets . Somewhat of the Mythology he knew ; but that might be no deeper than Ovid's Metamorphoses . Some allusions to several parts of the Eneid , the story of ...
... Latin ; fewer still that would make one think him acquainted with the Greek poets . Somewhat of the Mythology he knew ; but that might be no deeper than Ovid's Metamorphoses . Some allusions to several parts of the Eneid , the story of ...
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... Latin , Greek , and He- brew tongues , and in the rudiments of logic , music , and the French language . In 1632 he was sent to Cambridge , and admitted of Emanuel college , under the tuition first of Mr. Anthony Burgess , afterwards ...
... Latin , Greek , and He- brew tongues , and in the rudiments of logic , music , and the French language . In 1632 he was sent to Cambridge , and admitted of Emanuel college , under the tuition first of Mr. Anthony Burgess , afterwards ...
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... Latin , under this title : " Gram- matica Linguæ Anglicanæ , cum Tractatu de Loquela seu Sonorum Formatione , " in 8vo . In the piece " De Lo- quela , " & c . he tells us , that " he has philosophically con- sidered the formation of all ...
... Latin , under this title : " Gram- matica Linguæ Anglicanæ , cum Tractatu de Loquela seu Sonorum Formatione , " in 8vo . In the piece " De Lo- quela , " & c . he tells us , that " he has philosophically con- sidered the formation of all ...
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... Latin " Horoccii opera posthuma " ( see HORROX ) , to which he subjoined Flamsteed's " Discourse of the equa- tion of time . " He also employed some of his leisure hours in correcting , for his own private use , and supplying the ...
... Latin " Horoccii opera posthuma " ( see HORROX ) , to which he subjoined Flamsteed's " Discourse of the equa- tion of time . " He also employed some of his leisure hours in correcting , for his own private use , and supplying the ...
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... Latin , but also in the Hebrew , Syriae , Chal- dee , Samaritan , Arabic , Ethiopic , Persic , and Greek , lan- guages ; each having its peculiar Latin translation joined therewith , and an apparatus fitted to each for the better ...
... Latin , but also in the Hebrew , Syriae , Chal- dee , Samaritan , Arabic , Ethiopic , Persic , and Greek , lan- guages ; each having its peculiar Latin translation joined therewith , and an apparatus fitted to each for the better ...
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الصفحة 388 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
الصفحة 77 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
الصفحة 29 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
الصفحة 109 - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
الصفحة 322 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...
الصفحة 382 - 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...
الصفحة 278 - Whitlocked, with his usual candour, never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, "with more •wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, •with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and" -with a better grace in all his -words and actions, than did this great and excellent person ; and b» moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
الصفحة 14 - My Lord, I am a great deal older than your Grace, and have, I believe, heard more arguments for Atheism than ever your Grace did ; but I have lived long enough to see there is nothing in them ; and so I hope your Grace will.
الصفحة 58 - In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.