General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volumen6G. G. and J. Robinson, 1807 |
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... employed nearly two years in nego . tiations , during which time Kaempfer made every possible advantage of his situation for acquiring knowledge . When the embassador was about to return , our naturalist declined ac- companying him ...
... employed nearly two years in nego . tiations , during which time Kaempfer made every possible advantage of his situation for acquiring knowledge . When the embassador was about to return , our naturalist declined ac- companying him ...
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... employed in discussing it . Those of our readers who may have any curiosity to see what has been written upon the subject , may find a summary of what has been advanced on both sides in either of our subjoined authorities , ex- cepting ...
... employed in discussing it . Those of our readers who may have any curiosity to see what has been written upon the subject , may find a summary of what has been advanced on both sides in either of our subjoined authorities , ex- cepting ...
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... employed in preparing for the press , " Remarks on select Passages in the Old Tes- tament . " This work was undertaken by him , soon after he had completed the publication of his bible , and continued , with his usual attention and care ...
... employed in preparing for the press , " Remarks on select Passages in the Old Tes- tament . " This work was undertaken by him , soon after he had completed the publication of his bible , and continued , with his usual attention and care ...
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... employed himself chiefly in visiting the most remarkable libraries , and fre- quenting the society of the learned , of whom Baudelot and Montfaucon in particular shewed him every mark of esteem and respect . About this time a Celtic ...
... employed himself chiefly in visiting the most remarkable libraries , and fre- quenting the society of the learned , of whom Baudelot and Montfaucon in particular shewed him every mark of esteem and respect . About this time a Celtic ...
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... employed in the observatory at Dantzic for a considerable time , where he was very assi- duous in making observations , and had the honour to have the czar Peter the Great among the personal witnesses of his labours . That prince made ...
... employed in the observatory at Dantzic for a considerable time , where he was very assi- duous in making observations , and had the honour to have the czar Peter the Great among the personal witnesses of his labours . That prince made ...
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Página 139 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 183 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Página 170 - Bees, he drew his pen against the licentious doctrine that private vices are public benefits, and morality as well as religion must join in his applause. Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion.
Página 170 - A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament...
Página 168 - I think, a just opinion, that whatever renders religion more rational, renders it more credible ; that he who, by a diligent and faithful examination of the original records, dismisses from the system one article which contradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning, of mankind, does more towards recommending the belief, and, with the belief, the influence, of Christianity, to the understandings and consciences of serious inquirers, and through them to universal reception and authority,...
Página 314 - ... never gave over any part of study till he had quite mastered it : but when that was done, he went to another subject, and did not lay out his learning with the diligence with which he laid it in. He had many volumes of materials upon all subjects laid together in so distinct a method, that he could with very little labour write on any of them. He had more life in his imagination, and a truer judgment, than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study. Yet, as much as he was set on...
Página 38 - An Inquiry into the Constitution , Discipline , unity and Worship of the primitive Church , that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ, faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages; Londres, 1691, in-8°; — The History of the Apostles' creed, with critical observations on its several articles; Londres, 1702, in-8".
Página 51 - It will be a delightful occupation for me to make you more acquainted with my husband's poem. Nobody can do it better than I, being the person who knows the most of that which is not...
Página 64 - Zeal, intrepidity, disinterestedness, were virtues which he possessed in an eminent degree. He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated...
Página 144 - His life in Oxford was to pick quarrels in the lectures of the public readers, and to advertise them to the then Bishop of Durham, that he might fill the ears of King James with discontents against the honest men that took pains in their places, and settled the truth (which he called Puritanism) in their auditors. He made it his work to see what books were in the press, and to look over epistles dedicatory and prefaces to the reader, to see what faults might be found.