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], 1816 |
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... profession ; but 1671 , at the advice of some friends , he removed to Modena . His bre- thren of the faculty there conceived at first but meanly of his learning and abilities ; but , when he had undeceived them by his publications ...
... profession ; but 1671 , at the advice of some friends , he removed to Modena . His bre- thren of the faculty there conceived at first but meanly of his learning and abilities ; but , when he had undeceived them by his publications ...
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... profession , and much esteem from all who knew him , as a scholar and a gentleman . By the interest of lord Bute , he was intro- duced to his present majesty , when prince of Wales , whose portrait he painted both at whole length , and ...
... profession , and much esteem from all who knew him , as a scholar and a gentleman . By the interest of lord Bute , he was intro- duced to his present majesty , when prince of Wales , whose portrait he painted both at whole length , and ...
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... profession in which his genius enabled him to excell , and attract the approbation of the public , in the same manner as his private worth endeared him to society . In 1763 or 1764 he opened a shop in the Haymarket ; but in 1775 he ...
... profession in which his genius enabled him to excell , and attract the approbation of the public , in the same manner as his private worth endeared him to society . In 1763 or 1764 he opened a shop in the Haymarket ; but in 1775 he ...
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... profession , June 6 , 1664. He afterwards took possession of the abbey de la Trappe , and introduced those regulations above mentioned , which long made it the admiration of all travellers . In this retreat he lived devoted to his ...
... profession , June 6 , 1664. He afterwards took possession of the abbey de la Trappe , and introduced those regulations above mentioned , which long made it the admiration of all travellers . In this retreat he lived devoted to his ...
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... profession , but was regarded as a slight organ - player , and had never dis- tinguished himself as a composer . He obtained his degree at the installation of the duke of Grafton in the university of Cambridge , for which he composed ...
... profession , but was regarded as a slight organ - player , and had never dis- tinguished himself as a composer . He obtained his degree at the installation of the duke of Grafton in the university of Cambridge , for which he composed ...
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Página 153 - Parliament by the time limited in the former qualifications, and shall take and subscribe the engagement, to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England...
Página 159 - His great ,pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him. It was here he exhibited his wonderful powers. In mixed company, and frequently . in company that ought to have looked up to him, many, thinking they had a character for learning to support, considered it as beneath them to enlist in the train of his auditors ; and to such persons he certainly did not appear to advantage, being often impetuous and overbearing. The desire of shining in conversation was in him indeed a predominant passion;...
Página 216 - She then, after making use of much harsh language, parted from him, with these words, " My lord, for your civility in coming to see me, I thank you ; but for your offering to preach before me, I thank you not a whit.
Página 159 - Whatever merit they have, must be imputed, in a great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses, if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them ; but he qualified my mind to think justly. No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking.
Página 217 - Be of good heart, brother, for God will either assuage the fury of the flame, or else strengthen us to abide it.
Página 160 - He is always the same man ; the same philosophical, the same artist-like critic, the same sagacious observer, with the same minuteness, without the smallest degree of trifling.
Página 489 - Queen) were willing to record them in their royal patent, to remain in the family as a monument consecrated to his consummate virtue, whose name could never be forgot, so long as men preserved any esteem for sanctity of manners, greatness of mind, and a love of their country, constant even to death.
Página 216 - And as for your new books, I thank God I never read any of them: I never did, nor ever will do.
Página 263 - ... scene in which he acted. On one occasion, (when the capital of Scotland was in danger of falling into the hands of the rebels) the state of public affairs appeared so critical, that he thought himself justified in laying aside, for a time, the pacific habits of his profession, and in quitting his parochial residence at Gladsmuir, to join the volunteers of Edinburgh : and when, at last, it was determined that the city should be surrendered...
Página 269 - THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA ; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.