The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7. köideH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... seems to be mainly traditional , and for the latter we have merely an anecdote in one of Defoe's Lewspaper articles , which is at least as likely to have been fiction as fact . Attempts have been made , but merely fancifully , to trace ...
... seems to be mainly traditional , and for the latter we have merely an anecdote in one of Defoe's Lewspaper articles , which is at least as likely to have been fiction as fact . Attempts have been made , but merely fancifully , to trace ...
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... seems to have devoted himself to commercial and literary as well as to political matters , and prepared at this time his elaborate History of the Union , which appeared in 1709. In this latter year occurred the famous Sacheverel sermon ...
... seems to have devoted himself to commercial and literary as well as to political matters , and prepared at this time his elaborate History of the Union , which appeared in 1709. In this latter year occurred the famous Sacheverel sermon ...
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... seems that he only effected a mortgage upon it ( afterwards paid off ) , and that it was settled on his unmarried daughter at his death . Other property was similarly allotted to his widow and remaining children , though some difficulty ...
... seems that he only effected a mortgage upon it ( afterwards paid off ) , and that it was settled on his unmarried daughter at his death . Other property was similarly allotted to his widow and remaining children , though some difficulty ...
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... seems to have been a sober statement of the whole case in favour of natural religion , with copious but moderately ... seem generally to have inclined to a quietistic accommodation to established forms of faith , till better times came ...
... seems to have been a sober statement of the whole case in favour of natural religion , with copious but moderately ... seem generally to have inclined to a quietistic accommodation to established forms of faith , till better times came ...
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... seem to have questioned the doctrine as a whole ; and , while others made it a basis of morality , Shaftesbury protested ... seems ultimately to have constituted the deism that was commonly professed at the clubs of the wits and the tea ...
... seem to have questioned the doctrine as a whole ; and , while others made it a basis of morality , Shaftesbury protested ... seems ultimately to have constituted the deism that was commonly professed at the clubs of the wits and the tea ...
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Page 102 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 2 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 2 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 72 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 174 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 102 - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
Page 319 - Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college in the manner prescribed by the charter.
Page 302 - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
Page 240 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
Page 174 - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...