The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volumen31Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1817 |
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... Ward , then Savilian professor of astronomy , Rook , professor of astronomy at Gresham college , and Christo- pher Wren , then fellow of All Souls , and several other eminent mathematicians at that time in Oxford , but not meeting with ...
... Ward , then Savilian professor of astronomy , Rook , professor of astronomy at Gresham college , and Christo- pher Wren , then fellow of All Souls , and several other eminent mathematicians at that time in Oxford , but not meeting with ...
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... wards complied with the terms of the act of uniformity , and continued a steady conformist to the church of Eng- land until his death . We have already mentioned his Grammar of the English tongue , published in 1653. By some ...
... wards complied with the terms of the act of uniformity , and continued a steady conformist to the church of Eng- land until his death . We have already mentioned his Grammar of the English tongue , published in 1653. By some ...
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... wards found , when real business was transacted , to have fully merited . " Lloyd , who imputes universal genius to Wal- singham , says , that he could " as well fit the humour of king James with passages out of Xenophon , Thucydides ...
... wards found , when real business was transacted , to have fully merited . " Lloyd , who imputes universal genius to Wal- singham , says , that he could " as well fit the humour of king James with passages out of Xenophon , Thucydides ...
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... wards professor of Arabic at Cambridge . Among his other assistants were Mr. Samuel Clarke of Merton college , and Mr. Thomas Hyde of Queen's college , Oxford : he had also some help from Mr. Whelock , Mr. Thorndike , Mr. Edward Pocock ...
... wards professor of Arabic at Cambridge . Among his other assistants were Mr. Samuel Clarke of Merton college , and Mr. Thomas Hyde of Queen's college , Oxford : he had also some help from Mr. Whelock , Mr. Thorndike , Mr. Edward Pocock ...
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... wards translated into Latin by the care of Mr. Thwaites , and printed in the " Thesaurus Ling . Vet . Septen . " Oxon . 1705 , fol . He was soon after employed in arranging the valuable collections of Robert earl of Oxford , with the 94 ...
... wards translated into Latin by the care of Mr. Thwaites , and printed in the " Thesaurus Ling . Vet . Septen . " Oxon . 1705 , fol . He was soon after employed in arranging the valuable collections of Robert earl of Oxford , with the 94 ...
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Página 251 - Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to sooth his mind, and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Página 119 - 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.
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Página 297 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
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Página 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.
Página 336 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...