General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 第 10 卷G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... important and useful problem concerning the laws of motion in the collision of bodies ; and in 1666 he framed a new hypothesis to solve the phænomena of the tides , no satisfactory account of which had then appeared , and published it ...
... important and useful problem concerning the laws of motion in the collision of bodies ; and in 1666 he framed a new hypothesis to solve the phænomena of the tides , no satisfactory account of which had then appeared , and published it ...
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... important posts of first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the ex- chequer . A dangerous illness which soon followed , prevented his supporting in parlia- ment the famous septennial bill , which , how- ever , was planned with his ...
... important posts of first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the ex- chequer . A dangerous illness which soon followed , prevented his supporting in parlia- ment the famous septennial bill , which , how- ever , was planned with his ...
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... important occasions . In 1639 he was chosen representative in parliament for the University of Dublin ; and when the discon- tents occasioned by the administration of Lord Strafford were displayed in motions for the impeachment of that ...
... important occasions . In 1639 he was chosen representative in parliament for the University of Dublin ; and when the discon- tents occasioned by the administration of Lord Strafford were displayed in motions for the impeachment of that ...
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... important branch of political economy . He maintained an epistolary cor- respondence with many of the European literati , during the whole time of his being secretary to the Academy ; and his astronomical labours procured him so much ...
... important branch of political economy . He maintained an epistolary cor- respondence with many of the European literati , during the whole time of his being secretary to the Academy ; and his astronomical labours procured him so much ...
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... important as it was ob- tained over troops who , from the ferocity of their appearance , were peculiarly the dread of the Americans . Washington afterwards gain- ed an advantage over the British at Prince - town ; and his bold movements ...
... important as it was ob- tained over troops who , from the ferocity of their appearance , were peculiarly the dread of the Americans . Washington afterwards gain- ed an advantage over the British at Prince - town ; and his bold movements ...
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第 64 頁 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
第 33 頁 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
第 64 頁 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
第 77 頁 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
第 31 頁 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
第 148 頁 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
第 148 頁 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
第 98 頁 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
第 265 頁 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
第 65 頁 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...