The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1813 - Biography |
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... excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man of action and employment you seldom converse with , and then but with underlings ; not freely , but as a schoolmaster , ever to teach , never to learn . But if sometimes you ...
... excellent choice with men , who are the best books . For a man of action and employment you seldom converse with , and then but with underlings ; not freely , but as a schoolmaster , ever to teach , never to learn . But if sometimes you ...
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... excellent at making the best of a disgrace , that king James used to compare him to a cat , who always fell upon her legs . He was upon occasion a friend to the church and clergy and thus , when he had lost his public employ- ments ...
... excellent at making the best of a disgrace , that king James used to compare him to a cat , who always fell upon her legs . He was upon occasion a friend to the church and clergy and thus , when he had lost his public employ- ments ...
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... excellent use for the modern practice of the law , many of them containing matters in law , and points of great learning ; collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the stu dious and learned professors of the laws ...
... excellent use for the modern practice of the law , many of them containing matters in law , and points of great learning ; collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the stu dious and learned professors of the laws ...
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... excellent learning , wherein he shews how the common law stood be- fore those statutes were made , how far they are introduc- tory of new laws , and how far declaratory of the old ; what were the causes of making them , to what ends ...
... excellent learning , wherein he shews how the common law stood be- fore those statutes were made , how far they are introduc- tory of new laws , and how far declaratory of the old ; what were the causes of making them , to what ends ...
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... excellent draughtsman and engraver . He studied some time in Rome , and afterwards settled in his native place , Antwerp , where he assisted his father in most of his great works ; and afterwards published a prodigious number of prints ...
... excellent draughtsman and engraver . He studied some time in Rome , and afterwards settled in his native place , Antwerp , where he assisted his father in most of his great works ; and afterwards published a prodigious number of prints ...
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Page 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Page 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Page 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Page 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Page 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.