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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... king of Naples , prepared to invade the Florentine dominions . Lorenzo was not deficient in ac- tivity to guard against the coming dangers . He appealed to all the surrounding potentates for the justice of his cause ; and he was affec ...
... king of Naples , prepared to invade the Florentine dominions . Lorenzo was not deficient in ac- tivity to guard against the coming dangers . He appealed to all the surrounding potentates for the justice of his cause ; and he was affec ...
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... king . Providence then briefly recapitulates the achievements of all the kings of Spain , in one continued eulogy upon Juan , saying that his actions are to obscure them all . The poet very properly wishes to hear a few particulars ...
... king . Providence then briefly recapitulates the achievements of all the kings of Spain , in one continued eulogy upon Juan , saying that his actions are to obscure them all . The poet very properly wishes to hear a few particulars ...
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... king's physician , relates this in one of his let- ters , and adds that the king sent him with some of these stones to Juan de Mena . He died in 1456 at Tordelaguna , and was buried in the parochial church of that town , in a sumptuous ...
... king's physician , relates this in one of his let- ters , and adds that the king sent him with some of these stones to Juan de Mena . He died in 1456 at Tordelaguna , and was buried in the parochial church of that town , in a sumptuous ...
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... king's request , and supposed to be the oldest collection in any modern language . They have been republished by D. Gregorio Mayans y Siscar , in the first volume of the Origenes de la lengua Castellana , 3. Proemio al Condestable de ...
... king's request , and supposed to be the oldest collection in any modern language . They have been republished by D. Gregorio Mayans y Siscar , in the first volume of the Origenes de la lengua Castellana , 3. Proemio al Condestable de ...
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... king of Sparta , famous in semi - fabulous history for his share in the Trojan war , was the son of Atreus , king of Argos , and brother of Agamemnon . He mar- ried the most celebrated beauty of Greece , Helen the daughter of Tyndarus , ...
... king of Sparta , famous in semi - fabulous history for his share in the Trojan war , was the son of Atreus , king of Argos , and brother of Agamemnon . He mar- ried the most celebrated beauty of Greece , Helen the daughter of Tyndarus , ...
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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.