A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volumen1T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... wrote feveral pieces , and amongst the rest a treatise on divinity , intitled Medulla Theologica ; whence Boileau gave him the epithet of Moëlleux . The principles and tenets laid down in this performance differ greatly from thofe of ...
... wrote feveral pieces , and amongst the rest a treatise on divinity , intitled Medulla Theologica ; whence Boileau gave him the epithet of Moëlleux . The principles and tenets laid down in this performance differ greatly from thofe of ...
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... wrote a treatise , De non diffolvendo Henrici et Catherinæ matrimonio . In the year 1534 he was attainted of mifprifion , for taking part and being active in the affair of Elizabeth Barton , the holy maid of Kent ( b ) . He was af ...
... wrote a treatise , De non diffolvendo Henrici et Catherinæ matrimonio . In the year 1534 he was attainted of mifprifion , for taking part and being active in the affair of Elizabeth Barton , the holy maid of Kent ( b ) . He was af ...
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... wrote his Commentary upon the books of Joshua , Judges , and Samuel . Being afterwards fent for to the court of Fer- dinand and Isabel , he was advanced to preferment , which he enjoyed till the year 1492 , when the Jews were driven out ...
... wrote his Commentary upon the books of Joshua , Judges , and Samuel . Being afterwards fent for to the court of Fer- dinand and Isabel , he was advanced to preferment , which he enjoyed till the year 1492 , when the Jews were driven out ...
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... wrote several books . In 1496 he finished his Commentary on Deutero- nomy , and also compofed his Sevach Pefach , and his Nacha- lath Avoth . In the fucceeding year he wrote his Majene Hajefchua , and in 1498 his Mafchania Jefchua , and ...
... wrote several books . In 1496 he finished his Commentary on Deutero- nomy , and also compofed his Sevach Pefach , and his Nacha- lath Avoth . In the fucceeding year he wrote his Majene Hajefchua , and in 1498 his Mafchania Jefchua , and ...
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... wrote feveral books ( d ) . The Mahometans have related feveral fictions concerning this patriarch , as may be seen in the Alcoran , and in Keffæus , one of their principal authors . They say that he took a journey to Mecca , and that ...
... wrote feveral books ( d ) . The Mahometans have related feveral fictions concerning this patriarch , as may be seen in the Alcoran , and in Keffæus , one of their principal authors . They say that he took a journey to Mecca , and that ...
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Página 469 - Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God : and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Página 87 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 87 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 83 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 22 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Página 42 - The object, I could first distinctly view, Was tall straight trees, which on the waters flew; Wings on their sides, instead of leaves, did grow, Which gathered all the breath the winds could blow : And at their roots grew floating palaces, Whose outblowed bellies cut the yielding seas.
Página 294 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. VERSES...
Página 51 - ... but this even balance of opinion is not maintained in the pagan epitaph which was placed on his tomb : — ' Hospes, Achillinum tumulo qui quaeris in isto, Falleris, ille suo iunctus Aristoteli Elysium colit, et quas rerum hie discere causas Vix potuit, plenis nunc videt ille oculis : . Tu modo, per campos dum nohilis umbra beatos Errat, die longum perpftuumque vale.'2 Meanwhile, a decree of the Lateran Council; published on 19 Dec.
Página 80 - Britannia's public pofts retire, Nor longer, her ungrateful fons to pleafe, For their advantage facrifice your eafe ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys, Through nations fruitful of immortal lays, Where the foft feafon and inviting clime Confpire to trouble your repofe with rhime.
Página 248 - I now write to give the King an account of a patent I have stayed at the seal. It is of licence to give in mortmain eight hundred pound land, though it be of tenure in chief, to Allen that was the player, for an hospital.