General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volym 6G. G. and J. Robinson, 1807 |
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... engaged in the exercise of shooting , his gun burst , and he received a dangerous wound in the forehead by a splinter from it , which fractured his skull , and rendered it necessary for him to undergo the severe operation of trepanning ...
... engaged in the exercise of shooting , his gun burst , and he received a dangerous wound in the forehead by a splinter from it , which fractured his skull , and rendered it necessary for him to undergo the severe operation of trepanning ...
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... engaged in a medallic work at the time of his death , which took place after a few hours ' illness , Nov. 3 , 1787 , when he was about fifty - five years of age . Gent . Mag . Nov. 1787. Preface to Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek ...
... engaged in a medallic work at the time of his death , which took place after a few hours ' illness , Nov. 3 , 1787 , when he was about fifty - five years of age . Gent . Mag . Nov. 1787. Preface to Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek ...
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... engaged their attention , but secured their respect and warm affection . To young persons , and to young ministers in particular , he was always acces sible ; and he took sensible pleasure in assist- ing them with his advice , in the ...
... engaged their attention , but secured their respect and warm affection . To young persons , and to young ministers in particular , he was always acces sible ; and he took sensible pleasure in assist- ing them with his advice , in the ...
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... engaged the principal attention of Dr. Kippis during several of the last years of his life , was the improved edition of that great national work , the " Biographia Britannica . " His extensive knowledge of men and books , the valuable ...
... engaged the principal attention of Dr. Kippis during several of the last years of his life , was the improved edition of that great national work , the " Biographia Britannica . " His extensive knowledge of men and books , the valuable ...
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... engaged him to pass the year 1775 at his palace of Carlsruhe . It was no ordinary condescension or civility of the great which could put him at his ease in their presence ; for he could very well discern , under the mask of affability ...
... engaged him to pass the year 1775 at his palace of Carlsruhe . It was no ordinary condescension or civility of the great which could put him at his ease in their presence ; for he could very well discern , under the mask of affability ...
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Sida 139 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Sida 183 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Sida 170 - Bees, he drew his pen against the licentious doctrine that private vices are public benefits, and morality as well as religion must join in his applause. Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion.
Sida 170 - A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament...
Sida 168 - I think, a just opinion, that whatever renders religion more rational, renders it more credible ; that he who, by a diligent and faithful examination of the original records, dismisses from the system one article which contradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning, of mankind, does more towards recommending the belief, and, with the belief, the influence, of Christianity, to the understandings and consciences of serious inquirers, and through them to universal reception and authority,...
Sida 314 - ... never gave over any part of study till he had quite mastered it : but when that was done, he went to another subject, and did not lay out his learning with the diligence with which he laid it in. He had many volumes of materials upon all subjects laid together in so distinct a method, that he could with very little labour write on any of them. He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study. Yet, as much as he was set on...
Sida 38 - An Inquiry into the Constitution , Discipline , unity and Worship of the primitive Church , that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ, faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages; Londres, 1691, in-8°; — The History of the Apostles' creed, with critical observations on its several articles; Londres, 1702, in-8".
Sida 51 - It will be a delightful occupation for me to make you more acquainted with my husband's poem. Nobody can do it better than I, being the person who knows the most of that which is not...
Sida 64 - Zeal, intrepidity, disinterestedness, were virtues which he possessed in an eminent degree. He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated...
Sida 144 - His life in Oxford was to pick quarrels in the lectures of the public readers, and to advertise them to the then Bishop of Durham, that he might fill the ears of King James with discontents against the honest men that took pains in their places, and settled the truth (which he called Puritanism) in their auditors. He made it his work to see what books were in the press, and to look over epistles dedicatory and prefaces to the reader, to see what faults might be found.