A New and 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 of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volume 8T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1762 - Biography |
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... printed under his article in the General Dictionary , the fub- ftance inferted into the chronology of fir Ifaac Newton . Jo . An ex- pofition of Daniel's prophecy of 70 weeks , left printed imperfect , and not published . 11. A letter ...
... printed under his article in the General Dictionary , the fub- ftance inferted into the chronology of fir Ifaac Newton . Jo . An ex- pofition of Daniel's prophecy of 70 weeks , left printed imperfect , and not published . 11. A letter ...
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... printed at London in 1689 , was in Latin . 2. A regifter of the changes of the air , obferved at Ox- ford , inferted in mr . Boyle's gene- ral history of the air , Lond . 1692 , 8vo . 3. New method for a com- mon - place book , 1686. 4 ...
... printed at London in 1689 , was in Latin . 2. A regifter of the changes of the air , obferved at Ox- ford , inferted in mr . Boyle's gene- ral history of the air , Lond . 1692 , 8vo . 3. New method for a com- mon - place book , 1686. 4 ...
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... printed , or not extant in his works , Lond . 1730 , 8vo . This collection was alfo inferted in the folio edition of his works , which have paffed through several editions fince . It contains the funda- mental laws of Carolina ; it had ...
... printed , or not extant in his works , Lond . 1730 , 8vo . This collection was alfo inferted in the folio edition of his works , which have paffed through several editions fince . It contains the funda- mental laws of Carolina ; it had ...
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... printed at Paris in 1568 , folio . LORME ( JOHN DE ) one of the most eminent phy- ficians of his time in France , was born in 1544 , at Mou- lins in the Bourbonnois . He studied at Montpelier , where , having taken his doctor's degree ...
... printed at Paris in 1568 , folio . LORME ( JOHN DE ) one of the most eminent phy- ficians of his time in France , was born in 1544 , at Mou- lins in the Bourbonnois . He studied at Montpelier , where , having taken his doctor's degree ...
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... printed in Holland , in 1685 , 8vo . with an ac- count of his life prefixed , from whence the materials of this memoir are taken . He wrote feveral books , the greatest part of which , however , have not been printed : the titles of ...
... printed in Holland , in 1685 , 8vo . with an ac- count of his life prefixed , from whence the materials of this memoir are taken . He wrote feveral books , the greatest part of which , however , have not been printed : the titles of ...
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Page 560 - Westminster to the Old Exchange, London : and there likewise be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of his crimes ; and that at the Old Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 381 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 385 - The tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all ages, for any, who have the power, to call to account a Tyrant or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death ; if the ordinary magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.
Page 269 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 488 - Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty.
Page 287 - Playes they did write together; were great friends, And now one grave includes them in their ends. So whom on earth nothing did part, beneath Here (in their Fames) they lie, in spight of death.
Page 375 - Testament are still amongst us ; some procured from Egypt, others from Asia, others found in the Western churches. For the very distances of places as well as numbers of the books demonstrate, that there could be no collusion, no altering nor interpolating one copy by another, nor all by any of them.
Page 586 - In fact, the affair that chiefly employed his researches for so many years was far from being confined to the subject of light alone. On the contrary, all that we know of natural bodies seemed to be comprehended in it; he had found out that there was a natural action, at a distance, between light and other bodies, by which both the reflections and refractions, as well as inflections, of the former were constantly produced. To ascertain the force and extent of this principle of action...
Page 596 - Newton never married ; and it has been, said that " perhaps he never had leisure to think of it; that, being immersed in profound studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor the want of a companion at home.
Page 368 - The Epistles of MT Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero, with the Latin text on the opposite page, and English Notes to each Epistle ; together with a Prefatory Dissertation, in which the Authority of the said Epistles is vindicated, and all the Objections of the Rev.