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, 3-4. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1802 |
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3. oldal
... kind , and according to the accounts which are given us , the progress of his studies at the earliest periods of life , was rapid , almost beyond be- lief . When other children were only beginning to read , he was studying Boyle and ...
... kind , and according to the accounts which are given us , the progress of his studies at the earliest periods of life , was rapid , almost beyond be- lief . When other children were only beginning to read , he was studying Boyle and ...
10. oldal
... kind of academy at the Hay- market , with a view to secure to themselves a con- stant supply of operas to be composed by Handel and performed under his direction . About two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars were subscribed for this ...
... kind of academy at the Hay- market , with a view to secure to themselves a con- stant supply of operas to be composed by Handel and performed under his direction . About two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars were subscribed for this ...
27. oldal
... ; and with his knees on the ground and his hands on the gospel , to abjure it as an error and heresy . Some- thing of the same kind seems to have been the case with the important discovery made by Doctor Harvey of the DICTIONARY . 27.
... ; and with his knees on the ground and his hands on the gospel , to abjure it as an error and heresy . Some- thing of the same kind seems to have been the case with the important discovery made by Doctor Harvey of the DICTIONARY . 27.
38. oldal
... kind of useful knowledge . He had not been long there , before he became known to the famous Des Cartes , with whom he afterwards held a correspondence upon several mathematical subjects , as appears from the letters of Hobbes ...
... kind of useful knowledge . He had not been long there , before he became known to the famous Des Cartes , with whom he afterwards held a correspondence upon several mathematical subjects , as appears from the letters of Hobbes ...
39. oldal
... kind of learning . His care , in the discharge of this office gained him the esteem of that prince in a very great degree ; and though he afterwards with- drew his public favour from Hobbes , yet he always retained a sense of the ...
... kind of learning . His care , in the discharge of this office gained him the esteem of that prince in a very great degree ; and though he afterwards with- drew his public favour from Hobbes , yet he always retained a sense of the ...
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