A New Biographical Dictionary, of 3000 Cotemporary Public Characters, British and Foreign, of All Ranks and Professions, Volume 2G. B. Whittaker, 1825 |
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... Principles and Questions of Natural Mora . ; " " A Life of Xenophon ; " " An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History , " in 10 volumes ; " Plan of a Portable Historical Atlas , " 6 vols . ; " Historical and Geographical Picture of ...
... Principles and Questions of Natural Mora . ; " " A Life of Xenophon ; " " An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History , " in 10 volumes ; " Plan of a Portable Historical Atlas , " 6 vols . ; " Historical and Geographical Picture of ...
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... principles ; and , as he could not submit to be a slave , he withdrew altogether from public employ- ments . Literature seems for a long time after this to have engrossed him wholly . In 1803 he published an ironical and satirical ...
... principles ; and , as he could not submit to be a slave , he withdrew altogether from public employ- ments . Literature seems for a long time after this to have engrossed him wholly . In 1803 he published an ironical and satirical ...
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... principles of Fournier were republican , but in 1798 he manifested his nobleness of spirit , by defending some royalists who had been at . tacked in a coffee - house by a band of assassins . He re- ceived six sabre wounds in the contest ...
... principles of Fournier were republican , but in 1798 he manifested his nobleness of spirit , by defending some royalists who had been at . tacked in a coffee - house by a band of assassins . He re- ceived six sabre wounds in the contest ...
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... principles throughout the world . DR . FRAMPTON , 1 ONE of the most respectable physicians in London , is the son of a clergyman , and was born at Marlborough . After having been initiated in the preliminary branches of educa . tion at ...
... principles throughout the world . DR . FRAMPTON , 1 ONE of the most respectable physicians in London , is the son of a clergyman , and was born at Marlborough . After having been initiated in the preliminary branches of educa . tion at ...
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... principle of neutrality . So steadily did he adhere to that principle , that not even all the induce- ments held out to him by the powers allied against France in 1813 , were able to engage him to depart from it . Danish troops , it is ...
... principle of neutrality . So steadily did he adhere to that principle , that not even all the induce- ments held out to him by the powers allied against France in 1813 , were able to engage him to depart from it . Danish troops , it is ...
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Page 404 - He was the author of— Five Discourses, containing certain arguments for and against the reception of Christianity by the ancient Jews and Greeks.
Page 359 - The Gentle Shepherd ;" and though immoderately fond of them, yet (what you will think remarkable in one who hath since dabbled so much in...
Page 360 - Whether my manner of writing it out was new, I know not, but it was not without singularity. Having very little spare time from my flock, which was unruly enough, I folded and stitched a few sheets of paper, which I carried in my pocket.
Page 359 - I could not help regretting deeply that they were not in prose, that every body might have understood them ; or, I thought, if they had been in the same kind of metre with the psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading that I had learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me...
Page 361 - My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C.
Page 361 - I never write two copies of the same thing. My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate...
Page 359 - I got through both works, I found myself much in the same predicament with the man of Eskdalemuir, who had borrowed Bailey's Dictionary from his neighbour. On returning it, the lender asked him what he thought of it.
Page 405 - THE LIVES OF THE SCOTTISH POETS, with Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the early Scottish Drama, by David Irving, AM Two volumes.
Page 359 - Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one ; and if I came to a triplet, a thing of which I had no conception, I commonly read to the foot of the page without perceiving that I had lost the rhyme altogether. I thought the author had been straitened for rhymes, and had just made a part of it do as well as he could without them.
Page 427 - Edinburgh, he engaged actively in the literary societies of that city, and was one of the most conspicuous members of the Speculative Society. At the bar, the success of Mr. Jeffrey was, however, long doubtful, and it was not for many years that he acquired extensive practice. Yet his abilities as an advocate are of the first order. In acuteness, promptness and clearness ; in the art of illustrating, stating and arranging ; in extent of legal knowledge ; in sparkling wit, keen satire, and strong...