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, Volumen1 |
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... not thence follow that this idol was form. ed of combustible matter ; the words
may signify that Mofes melted down the gold again , and divided it into very small
particles , which being thrown into the water became imper· ceptible , like such as
...
... not thence follow that this idol was form. ed of combustible matter ; the words
may signify that Mofes melted down the gold again , and divided it into very small
particles , which being thrown into the water became imper· ceptible , like such as
...
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Abelard disputed against him on the nature of universals with such strength of
argument , that he obliged him to renounce his opinion , which was abstracted
Spinozism unexplained . This brought the monk into such contempt , and gained
his ...
Abelard disputed against him on the nature of universals with such strength of
argument , that he obliged him to renounce his opinion , which was abstracted
Spinozism unexplained . This brought the monk into such contempt , and gained
his ...
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Ac• appeared wonderful in the eyes of " cordingly , when I went up to pluck • such
as were only auditors , but 6 of its fruit , I found it like the fig . " contemptible to
those who put tree which our Lord cursed , or that ' questions to him . He had a
sur ...
Ac• appeared wonderful in the eyes of " cordingly , when I went up to pluck • such
as were only auditors , but 6 of its fruit , I found it like the fig . " contemptible to
those who put tree which our Lord cursed , or that ' questions to him . He had a
sur ...
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Abraham answered , “ Fifty Wretch that thou art , said the other , for adoring , at
such an age , a being which is but a day old . " These words , greatly confounded
Abraham Some time afterwards , a woman brought him some flour that he might ...
Abraham answered , “ Fifty Wretch that thou art , said the other , for adoring , at
such an age , a being which is but a day old . " These words , greatly confounded
Abraham Some time afterwards , a woman brought him some flour that he might ...
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... ( 6 ) This piece is divided into three of double entendres , of antistrophes ,
books , the first being dedicated to of retrograde verses , or such as read Pontus
de Tyard , lord of Biffy , and the same backward and forward , of bishop of
Chalons .
... ( 6 ) This piece is divided into three of double entendres , of antistrophes ,
books , the first being dedicated to of retrograde verses , or such as read Pontus
de Tyard , lord of Biffy , and the same backward and forward , of bishop of
Chalons .
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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.