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, Հատոր 6Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1812 |
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... gave him friends , or rather readers , among that very numerous class of the public , who , through an inconstancy cruelly rooted in the human heart , love to see those humbled whom even they esteem the most . whatever favour and ...
... gave him friends , or rather readers , among that very numerous class of the public , who , through an inconstancy cruelly rooted in the human heart , love to see those humbled whom even they esteem the most . whatever favour and ...
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... gave to the poor all the revenues he had received for eight years from a benefice he had enjoyed without performing the duties of it . To indigent men of letters his purse was always open ; and at his death he bequeathed almost all his ...
... gave to the poor all the revenues he had received for eight years from a benefice he had enjoyed without performing the duties of it . To indigent men of letters his purse was always open ; and at his death he bequeathed almost all his ...
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... gave them to the public in 1753 , in 2 vols . 12mo . In the first we have four comedies in prose and a me- ' moir on his life and writings , composed by himself . This man , who plumed himself on being a philosopher , here gives himself ...
... gave them to the public in 1753 , in 2 vols . 12mo . In the first we have four comedies in prose and a me- ' moir on his life and writings , composed by himself . This man , who plumed himself on being a philosopher , here gives himself ...
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... gave the child to eat ; who , with one hand held his bread , and with the other alternately shook his father and mother . It seemed at once to rekindle the love of life in their hearts , on perceiving that the child had left the bed and ...
... gave the child to eat ; who , with one hand held his bread , and with the other alternately shook his father and mother . It seemed at once to rekindle the love of life in their hearts , on perceiving that the child had left the bed and ...
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... gave the rise to that affair ; for so sagacious a courtier as Wolsey would have infallibly dis- covered it , and not have projected a marriage with the French king's sister , as he did not long before , if he had seen his master ...
... gave the rise to that affair ; for so sagacious a courtier as Wolsey would have infallibly dis- covered it , and not have projected a marriage with the French king's sister , as he did not long before , if he had seen his master ...
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Էջ 175 - Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Էջ 243 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him. I love him too with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at Westminster when I passed through it.
Էջ 243 - I love him too with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at Westminster, when I passed through it. He was so good-natured, and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him ; for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven...
Էջ 175 - Think then, of a gentleman of ancient blood, the pride of which was his predominant passion. He was then in his thirty-third year, and had been about four years happily married. His inclination was to be a soldier; but his father, a respectable Judge, had pressed him into the profession of the law. He had travelled a good deal, and seen many varieties of human life. He had thought more than any body supposed, and had a pretty good stock of general learning and knowledge.
Էջ 302 - ... produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise.
Էջ 380 - Kent, 1735. was bred a surgeon, but devoted much of his time to antiquarian researches, and published, besides other works, an elaborate and valuable " History of Sandwich, with Notices of the other Cinque Ports, and of Richborough.
Էջ 376 - Bible, which task they went through in nine months, having each from the company of stationers during that time thirty shillings a week. He afterwards assisted sir Henry Saville in publishing the works of St. Chrysostom...
Էջ 333 - Turks, and the chief sects of Christians, could allege for their several opinions ; that so, though he believed more than he could comprehend, he might not believe more than he could prove, and not owe the steadfastness of his faith to so poor a cause as the ignorance of what might be objected against it.
Էջ 273 - A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, in answer to the Objections of the late Lord Bolingbroke ; in Two Letters to a young Nobleman, 1752, 8vo, reprinted in 1753.
Էջ 281 - ... of Stationers, to be divided equally between six other printers, compositors or pressmen, as aforesaid, in manner as aforesaid ; and, if my said son...