The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, 3. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1805 |
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... sent to the public school at Bern , where he exhibited many spe . cimens of early and uncommon genius . He was greatly distinguished for his knowledge in the Greek . and Latin languages ; but he was chiefly remarkable for his poetical ...
... sent to the public school at Bern , where he exhibited many spe . cimens of early and uncommon genius . He was greatly distinguished for his knowledge in the Greek . and Latin languages ; but he was chiefly remarkable for his poetical ...
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... sent to the grammar school of Northampton . At this seminary he remained till he had attained his seventeenth year , during which time he had made great progress in the Greek and Latin lang- guages . Whilst Mr. Harvey was at school ...
... sent to the grammar school of Northampton . At this seminary he remained till he had attained his seventeenth year , during which time he had made great progress in the Greek and Latin lang- guages . Whilst Mr. Harvey was at school ...
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... sent to an academy at Islington , and was after- wards placed in Gray's Inn , for the study of the law , where he became well acquainted with the civil and municipal laws of his country , and from his ap- plication and great abilities ...
... sent to an academy at Islington , and was after- wards placed in Gray's Inn , for the study of the law , where he became well acquainted with the civil and municipal laws of his country , and from his ap- plication and great abilities ...
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... sent Critheis to Smyrna , which was then building , 18 years after the founding of Cumæ , and about 168 after the taking of Troy . Critheis being near her time , went one day to a festival , which the town of Smyr- na was celebrating on ...
... sent Critheis to Smyrna , which was then building , 18 years after the founding of Cumæ , and about 168 after the taking of Troy . Critheis being near her time , went one day to a festival , which the town of Smyr- na was celebrating on ...
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... sent his son to a grammar school at Hertford , the master of which was a gentleman of the same religi- ous principles , and possessed of considerable learning . From this school , young Mr. Howard was removed , at a proper period , to ...
... sent his son to a grammar school at Hertford , the master of which was a gentleman of the same religi- ous principles , and possessed of considerable learning . From this school , young Mr. Howard was removed , at a proper period , to ...
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332. oldal - I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found...
181. oldal - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house ; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
369. oldal - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
190. oldal - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
332. oldal - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
328. oldal - 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 farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
82. oldal - I consider besides, that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities ; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present.
178. oldal - Disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy on the 28th of June, agreeably to repeated instructions.
363. oldal - He first sent the chief nobility of his empire into foreign countries, to improve themselves in knowledge and learning : he opened his dominions, which till then had been shut up...
328. oldal - 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.