The General Biographical Dictionary, Svazek 28Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1816 |
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... favour ; in which he succeeded so well , that the sage was no less taken with the quick natural parts and genius of his new acquaintance . The pedlar , intending a journey to Bristol fair , left in the hands of young Simpson an old ...
... favour ; in which he succeeded so well , that the sage was no less taken with the quick natural parts and genius of his new acquaintance . The pedlar , intending a journey to Bristol fair , left in the hands of young Simpson an old ...
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... favour of the Cavendish family , on occasion of the parlia- mentary election at that place , in 1733 ; and from his first two mathematical questions that were published in the " Ladies Diary , " which were both in a set of verses , not ...
... favour of the Cavendish family , on occasion of the parlia- mentary election at that place , in 1733 ; and from his first two mathematical questions that were published in the " Ladies Diary , " which were both in a set of verses , not ...
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... favour never conferred on any before . His wi- dow died at Woolwich Dec. 19 , 1782 , aged one hundred and two . ' SIMSON ( ROBERT ) , an eminent mathematician , was the eldest son of Mr. John Simson , of Kirton - hall in Ayrshire , and ...
... favour never conferred on any before . His wi- dow died at Woolwich Dec. 19 , 1782 , aged one hundred and two . ' SIMSON ( ROBERT ) , an eminent mathematician , was the eldest son of Mr. John Simson , of Kirton - hall in Ayrshire , and ...
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... favours , and only asked the honour of bearing the title of his majesty's chaplain wher- ever he went . While things were thus circumstanced at Madrid , news was brought of the death of Pius IV . and the elevation of cardinal ...
... favours , and only asked the honour of bearing the title of his majesty's chaplain wher- ever he went . While things were thus circumstanced at Madrid , news was brought of the death of Pius IV . and the elevation of cardinal ...
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... favours , that might be pre- sumed to lay him under peculiar obligations . He was not less singular in his conduct to his relations , to whom he had heretofore expressed himself with the utmost tender- ness ; but now he behaved very ...
... favours , that might be pre- sumed to lay him under peculiar obligations . He was not less singular in his conduct to his relations , to whom he had heretofore expressed himself with the utmost tender- ness ; but now he behaved very ...
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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.