The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1814 |
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... born at Paris Oct. 10 , 1732. He was the nephew of the celebrated Duhamel , and acquired a similar taste for those studies that end in objects of real utility . He travelled over Anjou and Brittany to investigate the nature of the slate ...
... born at Paris Oct. 10 , 1732. He was the nephew of the celebrated Duhamel , and acquired a similar taste for those studies that end in objects of real utility . He travelled over Anjou and Brittany to investigate the nature of the slate ...
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... born at Liege , of an ancient and distinguished family , in 1609 ; and in 1625 , he entered the order of the Jesuits . His tutors , observing that his qualifications were peculiarly adapted to the duties of a preacher , took care to ...
... born at Liege , of an ancient and distinguished family , in 1609 ; and in 1625 , he entered the order of the Jesuits . His tutors , observing that his qualifications were peculiarly adapted to the duties of a preacher , took care to ...
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... born at Antwerp in 1580 , was one of the most learned and celebrated of landscape painters . Some have placed him so near Titian , as to make the difference of their pictures consist , rather in the countries represented , than in the ...
... born at Antwerp in 1580 , was one of the most learned and celebrated of landscape painters . Some have placed him so near Titian , as to make the difference of their pictures consist , rather in the countries represented , than in the ...
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... born with- out any fortune , had been able to maintain his father and sisters . In Sept. 1794 , he became a member of the com → mittee of public safety , and was again elected to it in Feb. 1795. Besides proposing some improvements in ...
... born with- out any fortune , had been able to maintain his father and sisters . In Sept. 1794 , he became a member of the com → mittee of public safety , and was again elected to it in Feb. 1795. Besides proposing some improvements in ...
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... born at Paris Jan. 19 , 1715. He was the son of Charles de Fourcroy , an eminent counsellor at law , and Elizabeth L'Heritier . Destined to the bar as an he- reditary profession , his inclination impelled him into the paths of science ...
... born at Paris Jan. 19 , 1715. He was the son of Charles de Fourcroy , an eminent counsellor at law , and Elizabeth L'Heritier . Destined to the bar as an he- reditary profession , his inclination impelled him into the paths of science ...
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Page 346 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Page 457 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 444 - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
Page 448 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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Page 453 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Page 443 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Page 513 - I acknowledge you are fitter to be the bishop of Durham than I am to be parson of this church of yours. I ask forgiveness for past injuries. Forgive me, father. I know you have enemies, but while I live bishop of Durham, be secure, none of them shall cause you any farther trouble.
Page 353 - O that I had never known what a court was! Dear Pope, what a barren soil (to me so) have I been striving to produce something out of! Why did I not take your advice before my writing fables for the duke, not to write them? Or rather, to write them for some young nobleman? It is my very hard fate, I must get nothing, write for them or against them.