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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17. oldal
... picture of the author's mind : such , with all its imperfections , I am sure is this The folly of writing , if it be one , I shall never com- VOL . III . No. 17. C 18 mit again ; and , having taken this resolution DICTIONARY , 17.
... picture of the author's mind : such , with all its imperfections , I am sure is this The folly of writing , if it be one , I shall never com- VOL . III . No. 17. C 18 mit again ; and , having taken this resolution DICTIONARY , 17.
23. oldal
... never married himself , was yet an advocate for marriage , and recommended it earnestly to all young people . He thought it the most effectual restraint on licentiousness , and that an increase of unhappiness was , by no means , the ...
... never married himself , was yet an advocate for marriage , and recommended it earnestly to all young people . He thought it the most effectual restraint on licentiousness , and that an increase of unhappiness was , by no means , the ...
33. oldal
... never came down . His illness gaining ground every day , he soon became sensible of his approaching dissolution . He had fre- quent and violent returns of the cramp , which gave him most acute pain , and had , likewise , a hectic cough ...
... never came down . His illness gaining ground every day , he soon became sensible of his approaching dissolution . He had fre- quent and violent returns of the cramp , which gave him most acute pain , and had , likewise , a hectic cough ...
34. oldal
... never to suppress , what he believes may be generally useful , through the fear of exposing him- self to the ridicule of some unthinking individuals . To die , is the lot of humanity ; but , however lightly the giddy multitude may speak ...
... never to suppress , what he believes may be generally useful , through the fear of exposing him- self to the ridicule of some unthinking individuals . To die , is the lot of humanity ; but , however lightly the giddy multitude may speak ...
53. oldal
... never meddled with politics , even when parties ran to the greatest lengths ; and what is still more remarkable , he never wrote a sentence , notwithstanding his numerous . publications , without a direct and a manifest inten- tion to ...
... never meddled with politics , even when parties ran to the greatest lengths ; and what is still more remarkable , he never wrote a sentence , notwithstanding his numerous . publications , without a direct and a manifest inten- tion to ...
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