The General Biographical Dictionary, 18. köideAlexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... soon distinguished himself above his competitors in the prize exhibitions , which took place once a year . Indulging the bent of his mind to this art , he solicited and obtained his father's permission to follow his studies in painting ...
... soon distinguished himself above his competitors in the prize exhibitions , which took place once a year . Indulging the bent of his mind to this art , he solicited and obtained his father's permission to follow his studies in painting ...
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... soon received an invitation to settle at that city , where , as there was no person of any eminence in his profession , he might reasonably look to the highest pro- spects of success . He accordingly accepted the invitation , and fully ...
... soon received an invitation to settle at that city , where , as there was no person of any eminence in his profession , he might reasonably look to the highest pro- spects of success . He accordingly accepted the invitation , and fully ...
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... soon after created earl of Devonshire , as tutor to his son William lord Cavendish . Hobbes ingratiated himself so effectually with this young nobleman , and with the peer his father , that he was sent abroad with him on his travels in ...
... soon after created earl of Devonshire , as tutor to his son William lord Cavendish . Hobbes ingratiated himself so effectually with this young nobleman , and with the peer his father , that he was sent abroad with him on his travels in ...
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... soon as he was dead , and the letter along with it ; of which we shall give a cu- rious extract : - " I would fain have published my Dia- logue of the Civil Wars of England long ago , and to that end I presented it to his majesty ; and ...
... soon as he was dead , and the letter along with it ; of which we shall give a cu- rious extract : - " I would fain have published my Dia- logue of the Civil Wars of England long ago , and to that end I presented it to his majesty ; and ...
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... Soon after dinner he re- tired to his study , and had his candle with ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid by him ; then shutting his door , he fell to smoaking , thinking , and writing for several hours . He retained a friend or two at ...
... Soon after dinner he re- tired to his study , and had his candle with ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid by him ; then shutting his door , he fell to smoaking , thinking , and writing for several hours . He retained a friend or two at ...
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Page 249 - He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or...
Page 249 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 304 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Page 421 - Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human (1733) he asserts that knowledge of God's essence and attributes can bo only " analogical
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Page 173 - He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it : and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every Psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done.
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Page 220 - The nation as well as the university," says Bishop Burnet, "looked on all these proceedings with just indignation. It was thought an open piece of robbery and burglary when men, authorized by no legal commission, came and forcibly turned men out of their possession and freehold.