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... obtained the first idea of his system . According to Cassiodorus , the author was born at Madaura in Africa ; but he has evidently confounded Apuleius with Capella , who calls himself a scion of Elissa , a name for Carthage ; and hence ...
... obtained the first idea of his system . According to Cassiodorus , the author was born at Madaura in Africa ; but he has evidently confounded Apuleius with Capella , who calls himself a scion of Elissa , a name for Carthage ; and hence ...
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... obtained the friendship and patronage of cardinal Rohan , the abbé Louvois , and other persons of note . At this time , some lessons which he gave in the Greek , and a chapelry of very mode- rate income in the church of St. André des ...
... obtained the friendship and patronage of cardinal Rohan , the abbé Louvois , and other persons of note . At this time , some lessons which he gave in the Greek , and a chapelry of very mode- rate income in the church of St. André des ...
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... obtained the situation of private tutor to the children of prince Rewsky , with a pension of 3,000 livres , which was regu- larly paid him till the time of the Polish revolution . On his return to France he became an author , wrote many ...
... obtained the situation of private tutor to the children of prince Rewsky , with a pension of 3,000 livres , which was regu- larly paid him till the time of the Polish revolution . On his return to France he became an author , wrote many ...
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... obtain the honour of knighthood , purposely to enable him to fight with Giosepino , who held that dignity . Shortly ... obtaining a pardon from the pope . Feeling now secure , he ventured to return to Rome ; but again he was attacked and ...
... obtain the honour of knighthood , purposely to enable him to fight with Giosepino , who held that dignity . Shortly ... obtaining a pardon from the pope . Feeling now secure , he ventured to return to Rome ; but again he was attacked and ...
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... obtained the place of one of the purveyors of wine to the king , and died in that employment in the year 1772 . CARBONI , ( Francesco , ) a painter , born at Bologna . He was a pupil of Alessandro Tiarini , and became an emulous and suc ...
... obtained the place of one of the purveyors of wine to the king , and died in that employment in the year 1772 . CARBONI , ( Francesco , ) a painter , born at Bologna . He was a pupil of Alessandro Tiarini , and became an emulous and suc ...
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Page 411 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Page 384 - In 1670 the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Oxford, at the same time with the prince of Orange, afterwards William III.
Page 92 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 367 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
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Page 286 - The Religion of Protestants a safe Way to Salvation ; or, an Answer to a Book* entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or. Charity maintained by Catholics,' which pretends to prove the contrary.
Page 207 - He covers his defects with a daring, fiery spirit that animates his translation ; which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
Page 36 - L'Orient, that when you have finished your military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your trophies. But that that period may be far distant, is the earnest wish of your sincere friend, Benjamin Hallowell.
Page 459 - An admonition to the people of England- Wherein are answered, not onley the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chief e of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredit the present state of the Church.
Page 457 - Sir (addressing himself to the Speaker), I, who rise only to give my opinion on the Bill now depending, am so confounded that I am unable to express the least of what I proposed to say, what must the condition of that man be, who, without any assistance, is pleading for his life, and under apprehension of being deprived of it...