Dictionary of National Biography, Volumen4Smith Elder, 1885 |
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... Italian , ' London , 1656. A portrait of Charles I , engraved by Stent , forms the frontispiece of the volume ; the dedication is addressed to Montague , Earl of Lindsey . The book is translated from Gioacchimo Greco's famous work on ...
... Italian , ' London , 1656. A portrait of Charles I , engraved by Stent , forms the frontispiece of the volume ; the dedication is addressed to Montague , Earl of Lindsey . The book is translated from Gioacchimo Greco's famous work on ...
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... Italian canon- ists . The opinion which Beale formed after consultation with these sagacious persons , and which he subsequently maintained in a Latin tract , has stood the test of time ; for though a royal commission , with Archbishop ...
... Italian canon- ists . The opinion which Beale formed after consultation with these sagacious persons , and which he subsequently maintained in a Latin tract , has stood the test of time ; for though a royal commission , with Archbishop ...
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... Italian . In the history of philosophy it has not the slightest importance . The loose , commonplace character of the professor's reasoning made the essay popular among such readers as wish to be thought acquainted with the philosophy ...
... Italian . In the history of philosophy it has not the slightest importance . The loose , commonplace character of the professor's reasoning made the essay popular among such readers as wish to be thought acquainted with the philosophy ...
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... Italy , Switzerland , and on the Rhine . At the end of 1824 he entered upon a medical practice at Worthing ( the salubrity of whose climate he recommended in a pamphlet pub- lished in 1858 ) , but left it in the following March to again ...
... Italy , Switzerland , and on the Rhine . At the end of 1824 he entered upon a medical practice at Worthing ( the salubrity of whose climate he recommended in a pamphlet pub- lished in 1858 ) , but left it in the following March to again ...
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... Italy . The short account of him in Füssli's ' Lexicon ' ( 1806 ) is the best : ' Pro- bably a Piedmontese , and the son of Claudio Francesco , he carried the sounding title of " Architecte pensionné de S. M. le roi de Sardaigne à la ...
... Italy . The short account of him in Füssli's ' Lexicon ' ( 1806 ) is the best : ' Pro- bably a Piedmontese , and the son of Claudio Francesco , he carried the sounding title of " Architecte pensionné de S. M. le roi de Sardaigne à la ...
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Página 269 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Página 307 - ... action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers."* Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles.
Página 307 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 269 - Morals reformed - health preserved - industry invigorated- instruction diffused - public burthens lightened- Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock - the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut, but untied - all by a simple idea in architecture!
Página 156 - Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland, and on the Principles of mercantile Jurisprudence, considered in relation to Bankruptcy, Competitions of Creditors, and Imprisonment for Debt.
Página 337 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Página 38 - KARAMANIA; OR, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ASIA MINOR. And of the Remains of Antiquity : with Maps, Plans, Views, &c.
Página 269 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all this in the present case comes to the same thing), or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
Página 307 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Página 348 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.