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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vii. oldal
... obliging as to honour him with some sketches of the illustrious dead , for which favours , he embraces this opportunity of returning his most grateful acknowledgments . Had communica- tions of this kind been more frequent , he has no ...
... obliging as to honour him with some sketches of the illustrious dead , for which favours , he embraces this opportunity of returning his most grateful acknowledgments . Had communica- tions of this kind been more frequent , he has no ...
9. oldal
... obliged his boarder to quit his house . Soon after , the niece finding herself pregnant , wrote to her lover , who advised her to leave Fulbert . She complied with the advice of Abelard , who sent her to his sister's house in Brittainy ...
... obliged his boarder to quit his house . Soon after , the niece finding herself pregnant , wrote to her lover , who advised her to leave Fulbert . She complied with the advice of Abelard , who sent her to his sister's house in Brittainy ...
10. oldal
... obliged to attend some public affairs in London ; and , his mother , to avoid the tumult of the Irish insurrec- tion , withdrawing to Derry . He was at this time with a relation , who in that general confusion , deter- mined to remove ...
... obliged to attend some public affairs in London ; and , his mother , to avoid the tumult of the Irish insurrec- tion , withdrawing to Derry . He was at this time with a relation , who in that general confusion , deter- mined to remove ...
32. oldal
... obliged to submit to the lowest offices in that house for sup- port . After some time he desired to take the habit in that monastery , but was rejected by the abbot Richard . " He was examined , " says Matthew Pa- ris , " and being ...
... obliged to submit to the lowest offices in that house for sup- port . After some time he desired to take the habit in that monastery , but was rejected by the abbot Richard . " He was examined , " says Matthew Pa- ris , " and being ...
33. oldal
... obliged those magistrates to abdicate their authority , and leave the government of the city to the pope . In 1155 , he excommunicated William , king of Sicily , who ravaged the territories of the church , and ab- solved that prince's ...
... obliged those magistrates to abdicate their authority , and leave the government of the city to the pope . In 1155 , he excommunicated William , king of Sicily , who ravaged the territories of the church , and ab- solved that prince's ...
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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.