Memoirs of the life of Peter Daniel Huet, bishop of Avranches, written by himself, tr. by J. Aikin, Issue 445, Volume 2 |
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... literature , not only in the se- veral branches of polite learning , but in physics , and especially in the studies which conduce to the illustration and improvement of the medi- cal art , in which he published several excel- * Book iii ...
... literature , not only in the se- veral branches of polite learning , but in physics , and especially in the studies which conduce to the illustration and improvement of the medi- cal art , in which he published several excel- * Book iii ...
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... literature , if examined by a learned eye , will immediately appear to be , not the harvest of a well cultured field , but of one only lightly turned up by the plough . It was in vain that Thomassin sought com- mendation for his ...
... literature , if examined by a learned eye , will immediately appear to be , not the harvest of a well cultured field , but of one only lightly turned up by the plough . It was in vain that Thomassin sought com- mendation for his ...
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... literature than in war , I sent him this book as a mark of my respect , which he received very graciously , and favour- ed with his approbation . ( 18 ) • In the first rank for wit , pleasantry , elegance , and even polite learning ...
... literature than in war , I sent him this book as a mark of my respect , which he received very graciously , and favour- ed with his approbation . ( 18 ) • In the first rank for wit , pleasantry , elegance , and even polite learning ...
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... literature ; and if I com- municated to it any thing of another kind which had been sent to me , or which I had written , it was heard carelessly , and received with little favour . I was not pleased to see that C 2 that the nobler ...
... literature ; and if I com- municated to it any thing of another kind which had been sent to me , or which I had written , it was heard carelessly , and received with little favour . I was not pleased to see that C 2 that the nobler ...
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... literature . He was then on his way to the district of Coutances in Lower Normandy ; and as he was my old acquaintance , he stole upon me silently in my library , and surprised me with a strict embrace . I returned it with no small ...
... literature . He was then on his way to the district of Coutances in Lower Normandy ; and as he was my old acquaintance , he stole upon me silently in my library , and surprised me with a strict embrace . I returned it with no small ...
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Page 329 - Je vis éloigné de la France Sans besoin et sans abondance Content d'un vulgaire destin J'aime la vertu sans rudesse, J'aime le plaisir sans mollesse J'aime la vie et n'en crains pas la fin.
Page 66 - Mais, si sur votre front je puis me voir un jour, La plus humble des fleurs sera la plus superbe.
Page 297 - Having contracted an acquaintance with many of the most eminent literary characters of his time, he...
Page 488 - ... is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Page 384 - In former times, as there was a greater propensity, and freer scope, for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance, so every person of distinguished abilities was induced by the consciousness of doing right alone, without regard to favour or interest, to record examples of worth.
Page 108 - Italic ; Et sous des noms Remains faisant notre portrait, Peindre Caton galant, et Brutus dameret.
Page 21 - ... any of the patients should die of an unknown malady, he should give me a summons that we might ascertain the disease and the cause of death by dissection. Nor did we employ our industry on the human body alone, but carried our researches into those of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. In this course it is incredible how many new and singular objects, well worthy of remark, came under our observation, all which I carefully recorded. And although we had no lack of careful dissectors,...
Page 142 - Qui ne peut revenir, Tourment de ma pensee, Que n'ai-je en te perdant perdu le souvenir?
Page 176 - I might not be suspected of idle boasting, 1 immediately put it to the proof. I therefore took the fourth part of a common leaf of paper, and on its narrower side wrote a single line in so \small a character that it contained twenty verses of the Iliad...
Page 259 - I cannot but regard it as a very valuable discovery ; and I think the literary tribe are much indebted to those who contributed to familiarize them with the " cups that s 2 cheer, cheer, but not inebriate.