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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... Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order John Aikin. பார்ப்பாய் 1 1 # Aiki 1 . 1 OR , LIVES. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 08253685 9 two years . VOL . VI .
... Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order John Aikin. பார்ப்பாய் 1 1 # Aiki 1 . 1 OR , LIVES. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 08253685 9 two years . VOL . VI .
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... made by him , and published at Lemgow in two vols . 4to . 1777 , 1779. This is the most complete , and contains matter not to be met with in Scheu- chzer's version . The style of Kaempfer is prolix , KAE KAE ( 2 ) • ...
... made by him , and published at Lemgow in two vols . 4to . 1777 , 1779. This is the most complete , and contains matter not to be met with in Scheu- chzer's version . The style of Kaempfer is prolix , KAE KAE ( 2 ) • ...
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... vols . Moreri . - M . KALDI , GEORGE , a Jesuit , whose learning and merits are highly spoken of by his biographers , was a native of Hungary , and born in Tirnaw , about the year 1572. He refused considerable ecclesiastical dignities ...
... vols . Moreri . - M . KALDI , GEORGE , a Jesuit , whose learning and merits are highly spoken of by his biographers , was a native of Hungary , and born in Tirnaw , about the year 1572. He refused considerable ecclesiastical dignities ...
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... vols . fol . 1685 : " Two Essays ; one on Human Nature , the other on Human Actions . " His manuscripts amounted at his death to one hundred folios , and more than fifty quartos , all of his own hand - writing . Among them are the ...
... vols . fol . 1685 : " Two Essays ; one on Human Nature , the other on Human Actions . " His manuscripts amounted at his death to one hundred folios , and more than fifty quartos , all of his own hand - writing . Among them are the ...
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... VOL . VI . incantations and Rosicrusian impostures , and , most probably , the knave of whom our ma- thematician was the dupe , was born at Wor- cester , in the year 1555. He was educated in grammar learning in his native city , and ...
... VOL . VI . incantations and Rosicrusian impostures , and , most probably , the knave of whom our ma- thematician was the dupe , was born at Wor- cester , in the year 1555. He was educated in grammar learning in his native city , and ...
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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.