The General Biographical Dictionary, 18. köideAlexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 |
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... thought he might do good service by composing something by way of antidote to the pestilential opinions which then prevailed . This engaged him to com- mit to paper certain principles , observations , and remarks , out of which he ...
... thought he might do good service by composing something by way of antidote to the pestilential opinions which then prevailed . This engaged him to com- mit to paper certain principles , observations , and remarks , out of which he ...
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... more than a fictitious narrative delivered in mean prose , with the additional mean- ness of harsh rhime , and untuneable measure . " Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . when I thought he had read it , I humbly 10 HOBBES .
... more than a fictitious narrative delivered in mean prose , with the additional mean- ness of harsh rhime , and untuneable measure . " Beattie's Essay on Poetry and Music . when I thought he had read it , I humbly 10 HOBBES .
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... thought any way to further or countenance the printing , I would be content to lose twenty times the value of what you can expect to gain by it . I pray do not take it ill ; it may be I may live to send you somewhat else as vendible as ...
... thought any way to further or countenance the printing , I would be content to lose twenty times the value of what you can expect to gain by it . I pray do not take it ill ; it may be I may live to send you somewhat else as vendible as ...
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... thought it a mere compliance to the orders of the family , and observed , that in city and country he never went to ... thoughts of it : he delighted to reckon upon longer life . The winter before he died , he made a warm coat , which he ...
... thought it a mere compliance to the orders of the family , and observed , that in city and country he never went to ... thoughts of it : he delighted to reckon upon longer life . The winter before he died , he made a warm coat , which he ...
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... thought of death that he appeared to entertain in time of health , was to take care of some inscription on his grave . He would suffer some friends to dictate an epitaph , among which he was best pleased with this humour , This is the ...
... thought of death that he appeared to entertain in time of health , was to take care of some inscription on his grave . He would suffer some friends to dictate an epitaph , among which he was best pleased with this humour , This is the ...
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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
Page 457 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
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.
Page 306 - I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange...
Page 515 - Jewish Antiquities, or a Course of Lectures on the Three first books of Godwin's Moses and Aaron. To which is annexed a Dissertation on the Hebrew Language.
Page 29 - A History of English Councils and Convocations, and of the Clergy's sitting in Parliament, in which is also comprehended the History of Parliaments, with an account of our ancient laws.
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.