The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 22Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1815 - Biography |
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... early history , pursuits , & c . our authorities give no ac- count , nor have the bibliographers of this country , to whom he is so well known , supplied this deficiency . All we know is , that he died December 15 , 1771 , in the forty ...
... early history , pursuits , & c . our authorities give no ac- count , nor have the bibliographers of this country , to whom he is so well known , supplied this deficiency . All we know is , that he died December 15 , 1771 , in the forty ...
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... early to letters , and the history of his life is only the history of his publications . He produced in 1752 , 1. " The origin of the Guebres , or natural religion put into action . " This book has too much of the cast of modern ...
... early to letters , and the history of his life is only the history of his publications . He produced in 1752 , 1. " The origin of the Guebres , or natural religion put into action . " This book has too much of the cast of modern ...
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... early proofs of capacity . He was afterwards sent to Pfortsheim , a city in the marquisate of Baden , where was a flourishing college , and here he became known to the celebrated Reuchlin , to whom it would appear he was distantly re ...
... early proofs of capacity . He was afterwards sent to Pfortsheim , a city in the marquisate of Baden , where was a flourishing college , and here he became known to the celebrated Reuchlin , to whom it would appear he was distantly re ...
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... early genius and knowledge . It is said that while at Heidelberg he was employed in composing the greatest part of the academical speeches , and Baillet adds , that at thirteen he wrote a comedy , and dedicated it to Reuchlin . With ...
... early genius and knowledge . It is said that while at Heidelberg he was employed in composing the greatest part of the academical speeches , and Baillet adds , that at thirteen he wrote a comedy , and dedicated it to Reuchlin . With ...
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... early youth performed the painful but indispensable duty of communing with his own heart , with the severest and most impartial scrutiny . " This appears by a copy of a letter from some eminent casuit , whom he had consulted respecting ...
... early youth performed the painful but indispensable duty of communing with his own heart , with the severest and most impartial scrutiny . " This appears by a copy of a letter from some eminent casuit , whom he had consulted respecting ...
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Page 185 - 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 154 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 331 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Page 273 - ... elected one of the knights of the shire for the county of Huntingdon...
Page 183 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 527 - Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away.
Page 373 - Then did I further put him in remembrance of the Statute of Praemunire, whereby a good part of the Pope's pastoral cure here was pared away. "To that answered his Highness: 'Whatsoever impediment be to the contrary, we will set forth that authority to the uttermost. For we received from that See our crown imperial' — which till his Grace with his own mouth told it me, I never heard of before.
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Page 140 - A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages through several successive centuries.
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