A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Volume 1 |
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... James I ....... Son of Mary Queen of Scots , grand- daughter of James IV . and Mar- 35 20 garet , eldest daughter of Hen . VII ... 1603 Charles I ..... Interregnum .. Charles II .... James II ...... William III .. Only surviving son of ...
... James I ....... Son of Mary Queen of Scots , grand- daughter of James IV . and Mar- 35 20 garet , eldest daughter of Hen . VII ... 1603 Charles I ..... Interregnum .. Charles II .... James II ...... William III .. Only surviving son of ...
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... James , died 1798 , Sergeant - at - Law , M.P. 1. Thoughts on the Dismission of Officers for their con- duct in Parliament , 1764. 2. Observations on the Power of Alienation in the Crown , 1768. 3. Discussions of the Law of Libels ...
... James , died 1798 , Sergeant - at - Law , M.P. 1. Thoughts on the Dismission of Officers for their con- duct in Parliament , 1764. 2. Observations on the Power of Alienation in the Crown , 1768. 3. Discussions of the Law of Libels ...
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... James I. , 1603 , under Fletcher the paths of peace . To almost every Protestant library , and to and Shakspeare . many a Protestant toilet , these sermons have found their way . " - author of several works . Discourse of Eliz ...
... James I. , 1603 , under Fletcher the paths of peace . To almost every Protestant library , and to and Shakspeare . many a Protestant toilet , these sermons have found their way . " - author of several works . Discourse of Eliz ...
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... James Chronicle , and to The Monthly Review . In the last - named periodical , he pub- lished a review ( June and August , 1783 ) of Dr. Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity ; it was wittily remarked of this review ...
... James Chronicle , and to The Monthly Review . In the last - named periodical , he pub- lished a review ( June and August , 1783 ) of Dr. Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity ; it was wittily remarked of this review ...
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... James , 1703–1795 , of Pilrig , Scotland . 1 . Delineation of Morality . 2. Philosophical Dissertations , Edin . , 1782. These two treatises were an attack on the speculations of David Hume ; but they were written with so much candour ...
... James , 1703–1795 , of Pilrig , Scotland . 1 . Delineation of Morality . 2. Philosophical Dissertations , Edin . , 1782. These two treatises were an attack on the speculations of David Hume ; but they were written with so much candour ...
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Page 174 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 11 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 175 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
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Page 70 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Page 11 - ... ..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most '
Page 88 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.
Page 11 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 174 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 11 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.