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... Author , he had the approbation of some of his most illustrious countrymen , Usher , Wilkins , Boyle , and Addison . “ I asked him , what work of Baxter's I should read ? ' He said , ' Read any of them : they are all good ...
... Author , he had the approbation of some of his most illustrious countrymen , Usher , Wilkins , Boyle , and Addison . “ I asked him , what work of Baxter's I should read ? ' He said , ' Read any of them : they are all good ...
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... Author's accuracy ( II . 423. ) from the valuable Collection of the Godolphin papers , now in the possession of the Duke of Leeds . See the British Plutarch , V. 91. Note . " None of his facts have been controverted , except his ...
... Author's accuracy ( II . 423. ) from the valuable Collection of the Godolphin papers , now in the possession of the Duke of Leeds . See the British Plutarch , V. 91. Note . " None of his facts have been controverted , except his ...
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... Author , and this Work of his is highly esteemed . " ( Harl . Cat . II . 693. ) As an Author , he is " not more remarkable for wit and quaintness , than for the felicity with which he clothes fine thoughts in beautiful language ...
... Author , and this Work of his is highly esteemed . " ( Harl . Cat . II . 693. ) As an Author , he is " not more remarkable for wit and quaintness , than for the felicity with which he clothes fine thoughts in beautiful language ...
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... Author's death , ( A. D. 1599 ) pronounces dignissimi qui Latinè loquantur ; and Grotius , in an Epistle to Mer ... Author , who was a younger son of the celebrated Earl of Surrey , was said to be " the learnedest among the nobility ...
... Author's death , ( A. D. 1599 ) pronounces dignissimi qui Latinè loquantur ; and Grotius , in an Epistle to Mer ... Author , who was a younger son of the celebrated Earl of Surrey , was said to be " the learnedest among the nobility ...
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... author of it , even from his most intimate friends . Abroad , it was greatly esteemed by Le Clerc and Limborch : the first , in his Bibliothèque Choisie , affirming that it was " un des plus excellens ouvrages , qui ait été fait depuis ...
... author of it , even from his most intimate friends . Abroad , it was greatly esteemed by Le Clerc and Limborch : the first , in his Bibliothèque Choisie , affirming that it was " un des plus excellens ouvrages , qui ait été fait depuis ...
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Página 281 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 169 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Página 585 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Página 441 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 488 - As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must, however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives.
Página 67 - I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause.
Página 19 - But none of our writers can, in my opinion, justly contest the superiority of Knolles, who, in his history of the Turks, has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit. His style, though somewhat obscured by time, and sometimes vitiated by false wit, is pure, nervous, elevated, and clear.
Página 421 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Página 63 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
Página 255 - I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; .he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.