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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... displayed very pro- mising talents for public speaking . In 1696 he was admitted a scholar of King's - college , Cambridge , where he became noted by his lucrative places of paymaster of the forces , and of WAL WAL ( 16 )
... displayed very pro- mising talents for public speaking . In 1696 he was admitted a scholar of King's - college , Cambridge , where he became noted by his lucrative places of paymaster of the forces , and of WAL WAL ( 16 )
第 19 頁
... talents , and animosity , and although composed of dis- cordant materials , yet united in hostility to his person and measures . It consisted of a few , but eminent , discontented Whigs , headed by Pulteney , a man of abilities , who ...
... talents , and animosity , and although composed of dis- cordant materials , yet united in hostility to his person and measures . It consisted of a few , but eminent , discontented Whigs , headed by Pulteney , a man of abilities , who ...
第 21 頁
... talents , and politeness , and who were hostile to the minister . He was in consequence induced to join the opposition , by which step , added to other causes of difference , he so much exas- perated the King , that he was ordered to ...
... talents , and politeness , and who were hostile to the minister . He was in consequence induced to join the opposition , by which step , added to other causes of difference , he so much exas- perated the King , that he was ordered to ...
第 24 頁
... talents which , if directed to that object , might have rendered him a successful candidate for dramatic fame . About the same time occurred those trans- actions between him and the unfortunate Chatterton which brought so much severe ...
... talents which , if directed to that object , might have rendered him a successful candidate for dramatic fame . About the same time occurred those trans- actions between him and the unfortunate Chatterton which brought so much severe ...
第 25 頁
... talents and accomplishments attracted the notice of Cecil , who introduced him to public business . His first employment was as am- bassador to the court of France , where he resided several years amidst the turbulence of the civil wars ...
... talents and accomplishments attracted the notice of Cecil , who introduced him to public business . His first employment was as am- bassador to the court of France , where he resided several years amidst the turbulence of the civil wars ...
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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...