The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Under King Charles II and King James II.: The Hon. Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and Afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II. And the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II.H. Colburn, 1826 |
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第 293 頁 - This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation ; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse...
第 171 頁 - That there can be no trade unprofitable to the public; for if any prove so, men leave it off; and wherever the traders thrive, the public, of which they are a part, thrives also.
第 326 頁 - He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians ancient and modern : So that he had great materials.
第 208 頁 - ... impediment to have raised the stone till he let go. We usually went there on Saturdays, which were Sir Christopher Wren's days, who was the surveyor ; and we commonly got a snatch of discourse with him ; who, like a true philosopher, was always obliging and communicative, and in every matter we inquired about gave short but satisfactory answers.
第 320 頁 - The master's disease was a high fever. It had been his custom, contracted when (upon the fund of a travelling fellowship) he was at Constantinople, in all his maladies to cure himself with opium ; and being very ill (probably) he augmented his dose and so inflamed his fever, and at the same time obstructed the crisis ; for he was as a man knocked down, and had the eyes as of one distracted. Our doctor, seeing him so, was struck with horror ; for he, that knew him so well in his best health, could...
第 292 頁 - He delighted in the small editions of the classics by Seb. Gryphius; and divers of his acquaintance, meeting with any of them, bought and brought them to him ; which he accepted as choice presents, although perhaps he had one or two of them before. He said that the black italic character agreed with his...
第 320 頁 - Cross, an old, low, ill-built house, which he had used for several years. For though his condition was much bettered by his obtaining the mastership of Trinity College, yet that had no bad influence upon his morals ; he still continued the same humble person, and could not be prevailed upon to take more reputable lodgings.
第 309 頁 - The doctor conformed to all the orders of the college, seldom ate out of the hall, and then upon a fish-day only, being told it was for his health. He was constantly at the chapel prayers, so much as one may say that, being in town, he never failed. This, in the morning, secured his time; for he went from thence directly to his study, without any sizing or breakfast at all.
第 170 頁 - He shows that, in commercial matters, nations have the same interest as individuals ; and forcibly exposes the absurdity of supposing that any trade which is advantageous to the merchant can be injurious to the public. His opinions respecting the imposition of a seignorage on the coinage of money, and the expediency of sumptuary laws, then in great favour, are equally enlightened.