Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford Carey, Lea & Carey, 1833 |
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... father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts , possessed considerable property , so that he was enabled to give his son an excel- lent education . Voltaire received his first ...
... father , Francis Arouet , notary of the Chātelet , and finally treasurer of the chamber of accounts , possessed considerable property , so that he was enabled to give his son an excel- lent education . Voltaire received his first ...
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... father sired , as the reward of his services , some and brother , his income amounted to marks of favor from the court , to facilitate nearly 130,000 livres , which he employed his admission to the academy , which had in a praiseworthy ...
... father sired , as the reward of his services , some and brother , his income amounted to marks of favor from the court , to facilitate nearly 130,000 livres , which he employed his admission to the academy , which had in a praiseworthy ...
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... father , who was also an artist . He accompanied the French embassy at Constantinople , and drew the grand seignior , from memory , after an audience in the train of the am- bassador . He then visited Venice and Rome , at which latter ...
... father , who was also an artist . He accompanied the French embassy at Constantinople , and drew the grand seignior , from memory , after an audience in the train of the am- bassador . He then visited Venice and Rome , at which latter ...
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... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- nos . He ...
... father kicked him down from Olympus , when he attempted to deliver his mother , who had been fas- tened by a golden chain for her insolence . He was nine days in passing from heaven upon earth , and fell in the island of Lem- nos . He ...
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... father of Apollo by Minerva . The second he mentions as son of the Nile , and called Phthas by the Egyptians . The third was son of Jupiter and Juno , and fixed his residence in Lemnos ; and the fourth , who built his forges in the ...
... father of Apollo by Minerva . The second he mentions as son of the Nile , and called Phthas by the Egyptians . The third was son of Jupiter and Juno , and fixed his residence in Lemnos ; and the fourth , who built his forges in the ...
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Page 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 80 - ... not furnish a single case from which even an enemy would infer that he was capable, under any circumstances, of stooping to the employment of duplicity. No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright, and his means always pure. He exhibits the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown, and whose professions to foreign governments, and to his own countrymen, were always sincere. In him was fully exemplified the real distinction which...
Page 465 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Page 477 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 477 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Page 147 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 224 - ... is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.
Page 80 - ... that no great and decisive advantages were ever obtained over him, and that the opportunity to strike an important blow never passed away unused. He has been termed the American Fabius; but those who compare his actions with his means will perceive at least as much of Marcellus as of Fabius in his character. He could not have been more enterprising without endangering the cause he defended, nor have put more to hazard without incurring justly the imputation of rashness. Not relying upon those...
Page 477 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Page 66 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity.