Encyclopædia 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; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations - Lexicon, Volume 4Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Carey, Lea & Carey, 1830 |
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Page 10 - I believe in the Holy Ghost The Lord and Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; Who spake by the Prophets...
Page 10 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ; one not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God; one altogether; not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person.
Page 10 - Faith ; which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.
Page 10 - The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone ; not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made nor created nor begotten, but proceeding.
Page 10 - So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Page 10 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father; God of God; Light of light; very God of very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father...
Page 14 - His principles are simple, founded upon experience, and free from many prejudices, which continued to prevail in Europe for centuries after. His work was no sooner published, than it spread throughout Europe. It was translated into several European languages, particularly for Charles V of France, in a splendid manuscript (1373), which is still extant; and no sooner was the art of printing invented, than copies of this work were greatly multiplied. The oldest known edition, which is now very rare,...
Page 7 - Pyrrhus appeared (1726), and met with a good reception, contrary to the expectation of the author, who, in this work, had abstained from the frightful and shocking. Domestic distress and poverty seem, from this time, to have crippled the powers of his genius.
Page 7 - Pyrrhus appeared in 1726 and met with a good reception, contrary to the expectation of the author, who, in this work, had abstained from the frightful and the shocking. When Madame de Pompadour wished to humble Voltaire, Crebillon was thought of as a fit instrument for her purpose. The king gave him the office of censor of the police, a yearly pension of 1,000 francs, and an appointment in the library. Thus freed from pecuniary anxiety, he finished his Catiline, which was represented in 1749 with...
Page 6 - The city of Ghent alone had 21 nltar-pieces by him. In Flanders and Brabant are many of his works, and some of his pictures are in the public collections at Vienna and Munich. His paintings are praised for fidelity to nature, excellent drawing, and a coloring approaching the manner of Vandyke. The latter was his friend, and took his likeness. Crayer died in 1669. CRAYONS ; a general name for all...