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, 1. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1801 |
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... never appeared over fond of power , nor did he endeavour to carry his prerogative as primate of England to any great height ; yet he had as great concern as any for the church , when he thought it really in danger . His great zeal for ...
... never appeared over fond of power , nor did he endeavour to carry his prerogative as primate of England to any great height ; yet he had as great concern as any for the church , when he thought it really in danger . His great zeal for ...
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... never tasted such joys before , they gave themselves up to them with the greater transports ; so that Abelard now per- formed the functions of his public office with great remissness ; for he wrote nothing but amorous verses . His ...
... never tasted such joys before , they gave themselves up to them with the greater transports ; so that Abelard now per- formed the functions of his public office with great remissness ; for he wrote nothing but amorous verses . His ...
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... never fails somehow or other , to bring in the distressed con- dition of the Jews . He was a most assiduous man ' in his studies , in which he would spend whole nights , and would fast for a considerable time . ACHILLES , one of the ...
... never fails somehow or other , to bring in the distressed con- dition of the Jews . He was a most assiduous man ' in his studies , in which he would spend whole nights , and would fast for a considerable time . ACHILLES , one of the ...
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... never raised . In building cities and carrying on works of public utility , no prince ever excelled him . In respect to religious foundations , he rebuilt and restored almost every monastery of the kingdom which the poverty of the times ...
... never raised . In building cities and carrying on works of public utility , no prince ever excelled him . In respect to religious foundations , he rebuilt and restored almost every monastery of the kingdom which the poverty of the times ...
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... witty sayings , which we think well worthy to record , such as , That as a covetous man is never satisfied with money , so a covetous man should esteem learning as silver ; noblemen prize it as gold , 58 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL.
... witty sayings , which we think well worthy to record , such as , That as a covetous man is never satisfied with money , so a covetous man should esteem learning as silver ; noblemen prize it as gold , 58 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL.
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379. oldal - you choose a member, indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the
379. oldal - Certainly, Gentlemen," says he, " it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention : it is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfaction, to theirs:
251. oldal - could be rarely hurt by them. He was the first that infused, that degree of courage into seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved; and the first that taught them to fight in fire as well as
156. oldal - and remain prisoner in the tower, during the king's pleasure: that he should for ever be incapable of any office, place, or employment in the state or commonwealth: and that he should never sit in Parliament, or come within the verge of the court.
493. oldal - any way, as on the wings of poetry ; he is the most noted and most deserving man, in the whole profession of Chirurgery ; and has saved the lives of thousands, by his manner of cutting for the stone." In his several publications on anatomy, he never failed to introduce select cases in surgery ; and, to
379. oldal - but his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men.
392. oldal - was of considerable weight, in the unfolding of his genius and character •, as he soon became remarkable for the fluency and correctness of his expression, and read the few books that came in his way, with much pleasure and improvement; for even then, he was a reader, when he could get a book.
348. oldal - encouragement of geography though a mere private Briton. I triumphed here in my own mind over kings and their armies; and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to the presumption, when the place itself, where I stood, the object of my vain glory, suggested what depressed my
457. oldal - he laboured to enslave the inhabitants of another region ; and in the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las
230. oldal - genius. How Shakespeare wrote, all men, who have a taste for nature may read and know ; but with what higher rapture would he still be read, could they conceive how Betterton played him ; then might they know, the one was born alone to speak, what the other only knew to write.