The General Biographical Dictionary, Svazek 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... answer to Le Clerc , who had criticised his work the year before ; and , upon Le Clerc's replying in 1686 , another in 1687 , both under the name of the Prior of Bolleville , at which place he then resided . In 1688 he published at ...
... answer to Le Clerc , who had criticised his work the year before ; and , upon Le Clerc's replying in 1686 , another in 1687 , both under the name of the Prior of Bolleville , at which place he then resided . In 1688 he published at ...
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... answer to Hiero , as recorded by Cicero , has been often quoted as a proof , not only of his wisdom , but his piety . When Hiero asked of him a definition of God , he requested a day to consider of it ; when this was expired , he ...
... answer to Hiero , as recorded by Cicero , has been often quoted as a proof , not only of his wisdom , but his piety . When Hiero asked of him a definition of God , he requested a day to consider of it ; when this was expired , he ...
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... answer certain questions to a young woman , who con- sulted him respecting her sweetheart , then absent at sea , the credulous girl was so frightened on the appearance of a man from beneath some straw , who represented the devil , that ...
... answer certain questions to a young woman , who con- sulted him respecting her sweetheart , then absent at sea , the credulous girl was so frightened on the appearance of a man from beneath some straw , who represented the devil , that ...
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... answers to some personal and malignant re- presentations in the Preface thereof . " To this De Moivre never thought fit to reply . In 1743 he published also " Mathematical Dissertations on a variety of Physical and Analytical subjects ...
... answers to some personal and malignant re- presentations in the Preface thereof . " To this De Moivre never thought fit to reply . In 1743 he published also " Mathematical Dissertations on a variety of Physical and Analytical subjects ...
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... answer to those remarks from Mr. Simpson , in the notes added to the second edition as above ; to some parts of which Dr. Simson again replied in his notes on the next edition of the said Elements of Euclid . The second was by an ...
... answer to those remarks from Mr. Simpson , in the notes added to the second edition as above ; to some parts of which Dr. Simson again replied in his notes on the next edition of the said Elements of Euclid . The second was by an ...
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Strana 468 - DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Strana 86 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Strana 248 - Complaint and those other serious poems said to be father Southwell's ; the English whereof, as it is most proper, so the sharpness and light of wit is very rare in them.
Strana 243 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old *, and has almost wholly lost his memory; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Strana 129 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing...
Strana 334 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well; so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Strana 421 - An Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton, at his execution, to sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London, with the Paper itself.
Strana 215 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Strana 265 - BATT upon Batt. A poem upon the parts, patience and pains of Barth. Kempster, clerk, poet, cutler, of Holyrood-parish in Southampton.
Strana 276 - Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults; who censured with respect and praised with alacrity.