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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Pàgina 6
... appears by sir Andrew's name on the plates . 1 1 FOUQUIERES ( JAMES ) , a Flemish painter of the 17th century , born at Antwerp in 1580 , was one of the most learned and celebrated of landscape painters . Some have placed him so near ...
... appears by sir Andrew's name on the plates . 1 1 FOUQUIERES ( JAMES ) , a Flemish painter of the 17th century , born at Antwerp in 1580 , was one of the most learned and celebrated of landscape painters . Some have placed him so near ...
Pàgina 14
... appears to have been a scholar of vast industry and merit , but perfectly conscious of the rank he held . He had a younger brother , MICHAEL FOURMONT , who was an ecclesiastic , a professor of the Syriac tongue in the royal college ...
... appears to have been a scholar of vast industry and merit , but perfectly conscious of the rank he held . He had a younger brother , MICHAEL FOURMONT , who was an ecclesiastic , a professor of the Syriac tongue in the royal college ...
Pàgina 18
... appears to have examined with care , we find no mention made of any litigious proceedings of the parish- ioners against Dr. Fowler ; but on the contrary , there are the following entries , which show how much he was re- spected by them ...
... appears to have examined with care , we find no mention made of any litigious proceedings of the parish- ioners against Dr. Fowler ; but on the contrary , there are the following entries , which show how much he was re- spected by them ...
Pàgina 28
... appears to have been the same , for his relations were greatly displeased at him , and afraid to countenance or protect one condemned for a capital offence ; and his father - in - law basely took advantage of it to withhold his paternal ...
... appears to have been the same , for his relations were greatly displeased at him , and afraid to countenance or protect one condemned for a capital offence ; and his father - in - law basely took advantage of it to withhold his paternal ...
Pàgina 29
... appears more probable that it was he who demonstrated his friend . ship to Fox in the manner described in the text . The wonder is to find this A .. liberality in so bigotted a catholic as the duke of Norfolk . " It does not seem very ...
... appears more probable that it was he who demonstrated his friend . ship to Fox in the manner described in the text . The wonder is to find this A .. liberality in so bigotted a catholic as the duke of Norfolk . " It does not seem very ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 346 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Pàgina 457 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pàgina 444 - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
Pàgina 448 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pàgina 89 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Pàgina 170 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Pàgina 453 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Pàgina 443 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Pàgina 513 - I acknowledge you are fitter to be the bishop of Durham than I am to be parson of this church of yours. I ask forgiveness for past injuries. Forgive me, father. I know you have enemies, but while I live bishop of Durham, be secure, none of them shall cause you any farther trouble.
Pàgina 353 - O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for some young nobleman? It is my very hard fate, I must get nothing, write for them or against them.