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, Volume 3Johnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1805 |
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... obliged to cut short his anotomical inves- tigations by a precipitate retreat . Still , however , in- tent on the farther prosecution of his studies , he went to Basil , where he became a pupil to the celebrated Bernouille . Thus ...
... obliged to cut short his anotomical inves- tigations by a precipitate retreat . Still , however , in- tent on the farther prosecution of his studies , he went to Basil , where he became a pupil to the celebrated Bernouille . Thus ...
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... obliged to quit England and go over to Dublin . He was received in Ireland in a manner suitable to his great merit , and his performing his oratorio called the " Messiah , " for the benefit of the city - pri- son , brought him into ...
... obliged to quit England and go over to Dublin . He was received in Ireland in a manner suitable to his great merit , and his performing his oratorio called the " Messiah , " for the benefit of the city - pri- son , brought him into ...
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... obliged to examine my conscience , concerning the causes , for which so ma- ny signal misfortunes have happened unto me ; and I freely confess , that among many heinous sins , there is one , which more especially causes me great trou ...
... obliged to examine my conscience , concerning the causes , for which so ma- ny signal misfortunes have happened unto me ; and I freely confess , that among many heinous sins , there is one , which more especially causes me great trou ...
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... obliged to ask par- don for having maintained what he really believed ; 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 ...
... obliged to ask par- don for having maintained what he really believed ; 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 ...
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... obliged to employ his . friends to correct his Analysis , " he did not seem to have discovered , that even spelling was a necessary qualification . One of our artist's common topics of declamation was , the uselessness of books to a man ...
... obliged to employ his . friends to correct his Analysis , " he did not seem to have discovered , that even spelling was a necessary qualification . One of our artist's common topics of declamation was , the uselessness of books to a man ...
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Page 332 - I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found...
Page 181 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house ; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
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Page 332 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 328 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 82 - I consider besides, that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities ; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present.
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Page 328 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.