General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volumen7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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... appeared in 1702 , in octavo . The medical sect to which he had attached himself is declared by the title VOL . VII . sent obtain few partisans ; indeed he himself in mature age retracted it in several points . There are , however ...
... appeared in 1702 , in octavo . The medical sect to which he had attached himself is declared by the title VOL . VII . sent obtain few partisans ; indeed he himself in mature age retracted it in several points . There are , however ...
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... appeared since the commencement of the work in 1679. In the year 1790 , M. Mechain discovered his eighth comet , and communicated to the Academy his observations on it , together with his calcula- tions of its orbit . In 1792 , he ...
... appeared since the commencement of the work in 1679. In the year 1790 , M. Mechain discovered his eighth comet , and communicated to the Academy his observations on it , together with his calcula- tions of its orbit . In 1792 , he ...
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... appeared to give him much concern . His re- gard to literature , which never ceased to be the favourite recreation of his leisure , was laudably displayed in 1472 by the lead he took in the re - establishment of the academy of Pisa . He ...
... appeared to give him much concern . His re- gard to literature , which never ceased to be the favourite recreation of his leisure , was laudably displayed in 1472 by the lead he took in the re - establishment of the academy of Pisa . He ...
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... appeared in public surrounded with friends as a guard , a circum- stance which has been represented by his ene- mies as a symptom of tyranny . His political conduct as head of the Florentine republic was chiefly directed to the ...
... appeared in public surrounded with friends as a guard , a circum- stance which has been represented by his ene- mies as a symptom of tyranny . His political conduct as head of the Florentine republic was chiefly directed to the ...
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... appeared his trea- tise " De ce visiis , potibusque et incbriamini- bus extra vinum aliis , " 1668 , quarto , which is rather a philological than a medical or botani- cal work ; and his " Aurelii Cassiodorii For- mula Comitis ...
... appeared his trea- tise " De ce visiis , potibusque et incbriamini- bus extra vinum aliis , " 1668 , quarto , which is rather a philological than a medical or botani- cal work ; and his " Aurelii Cassiodorii For- mula Comitis ...
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Página 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 107 - 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.
Página 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Página 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Página 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Página 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Página 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Página 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Página 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Página 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.