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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... philosophy would have led him far , had he not been incessantly called . from it to the duties of his station . From these he some- times stole time for making observations ; but , guarding against the illusions of self - love , he ...
... philosophy would have led him far , had he not been incessantly called . from it to the duties of his station . From these he some- times stole time for making observations ; but , guarding against the illusions of self - love , he ...
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... philosophy , in different colleges ; and happening to meet with the abbé Sevin , who loved study ' as well as himself , they formed a scheme of reading all ♢ Eloges des Academiciens , vol . V. — Dict . Hist . — European Mag , the Greek ...
... philosophy , in different colleges ; and happening to meet with the abbé Sevin , who loved study ' as well as himself , they formed a scheme of reading all ♢ Eloges des Academiciens , vol . V. — Dict . Hist . — European Mag , the Greek ...
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... philosophy , and arts , for a president and thirty scholars , graduate and not graduate , more or less ac- cording to the revenues of the society , on a certain ground between Merton college on the east , a lane near Canter- bury ...
... philosophy , and arts , for a president and thirty scholars , graduate and not graduate , more or less ac- cording to the revenues of the society , on a certain ground between Merton college on the east , a lane near Canter- bury ...
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... philosophy and the belles lettres , acquiring such reputation from his works as made his untimely death a subject of unfeigned regret with his countrymen . After being educated in grammar learning at Seville , he studied at Louvaine and ...
... philosophy and the belles lettres , acquiring such reputation from his works as made his untimely death a subject of unfeigned regret with his countrymen . After being educated in grammar learning at Seville , he studied at Louvaine and ...
第 57 頁
... philosopher , a phy- sician , an astronomer , and a mathematician . He was a man also of great political consequence , as appears from pope Paul III.'s making use of his authority to remove the council of Trent to Bologna , under the ...
... philosopher , a phy- sician , an astronomer , and a mathematician . He was a man also of great political consequence , as appears from pope Paul III.'s making use of his authority to remove the council of Trent to Bologna , under the ...
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第 346 頁 - 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.
第 457 頁 - 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.
第 444 頁 - 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.
第 448 頁 - 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.
第 89 頁 - 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...
第 170 頁 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
第 453 頁 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
第 443 頁 - 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.
第 513 頁 - 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.
第 353 頁 - 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.