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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... attended his patients , and was one of his bail when enlarged . In 1727 Dr. Mead was appointed physician in ordinary to George II . His occupations were now so numerous that he had little leisure for writing ; and it was not till 1747 ...
... attended his patients , and was one of his bail when enlarged . In 1727 Dr. Mead was appointed physician in ordinary to George II . His occupations were now so numerous that he had little leisure for writing ; and it was not till 1747 ...
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... attended , it is sufficient to say that it was the school of Michael - Angelo . The art of architecture he encouraged by the numerous buildings public and private which he erected , or induced others to erect , in Florence and its ...
... attended , it is sufficient to say that it was the school of Michael - Angelo . The art of architecture he encouraged by the numerous buildings public and private which he erected , or induced others to erect , in Florence and its ...
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... attended the public school , and was afterwards placed under the care of a private tutor . From Bretten he was sent to the college of Pfortsheim , and had lodgings in that town at the house of one of his relations , who was sister to ...
... attended the public school , and was afterwards placed under the care of a private tutor . From Bretten he was sent to the college of Pfortsheim , and had lodgings in that town at the house of one of his relations , who was sister to ...
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... attended the different professors of classical and po- lite learning , the mathematics , philosophy , di- vinity , law , and even medicine , and added con- siderably to the stores of knowledge which he had before acquired . After having ...
... attended the different professors of classical and po- lite learning , the mathematics , philosophy , di- vinity , law , and even medicine , and added con- siderably to the stores of knowledge which he had before acquired . After having ...
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... his comprehension , or the unin- terrupted industry that attended his learned and theological labours . He rendered to philoso- phy and the liberal arts the same eminent ser- vice that Luther had done to religion , by purg- MEL MEL ( 20 )
... his comprehension , or the unin- terrupted industry that attended his learned and theological labours . He rendered to philoso- phy and the liberal arts the same eminent ser- vice that Luther had done to religion , by purg- MEL MEL ( 20 )
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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.