The 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 to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1814 |
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... amicorum Poetarum , & defleatur interitus Herculis Cardi- nalis Rangonis . " This poem is annexed to the Florentine edition of the two dialogues concerning his contemporary poets ; and contains a curious literary history of that GIRALDI .
... amicorum Poetarum , & defleatur interitus Herculis Cardi- nalis Rangonis . " This poem is annexed to the Florentine edition of the two dialogues concerning his contemporary poets ; and contains a curious literary history of that GIRALDI .
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... literary history of that time . To other praises bestowed upon Giraldus by authors of the first name , we may add that of Casaubon , who calls him , " vir solide doctus , & in scribendo accuratus , " a man solidly learned and an ...
... literary history of that time . To other praises bestowed upon Giraldus by authors of the first name , we may add that of Casaubon , who calls him , " vir solide doctus , & in scribendo accuratus , " a man solidly learned and an ...
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... literary pursuits . There by the interest of some friends he was made almoner to the duchess of Berri , daughter of the regent , and also ob- tained the place of king's interpreter for the Sclavonian and Russian languages . In 1744 he ...
... literary pursuits . There by the interest of some friends he was made almoner to the duchess of Berri , daughter of the regent , and also ob- tained the place of king's interpreter for the Sclavonian and Russian languages . In 1744 he ...
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... literary world in a very favourable light . He had an opportunity of improving by the weakness of an antagonist , whom he answered in an appendix to a piece called " Scepsis Scientifica , or confessed ignorance the way to science , in ...
... literary world in a very favourable light . He had an opportunity of improving by the weakness of an antagonist , whom he answered in an appendix to a piece called " Scepsis Scientifica , or confessed ignorance the way to science , in ...
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... literary ho- nours . At the usual period Glover became engaged in the Hamburgh trade , but continued his attachment to litera < ture and the muses , and was , says Dr. Warton , one of the best and most accurate Greek scholars of his ...
... literary ho- nours . At the usual period Glover became engaged in the Hamburgh trade , but continued his attachment to litera < ture and the muses , and was , says Dr. Warton , one of the best and most accurate Greek scholars of his ...
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Sida 318 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Sida 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Sida 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Sida 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Sida 318 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Sida 60 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Sida 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Sida 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Sida 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.