The History of the Works of the Learned ..., المجلد 9J. Robinson, 1741 Containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great Britain and foreign parts ... |
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... The like may be faid of the Increase and adult State , and Decay and Death of Ani- " mals : all which have their determined Spaces of " Duration , " Duration , or arrive at their feveral Stadia in 26 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . 2 .
... The like may be faid of the Increase and adult State , and Decay and Death of Ani- " mals : all which have their determined Spaces of " Duration , " Duration , or arrive at their feveral Stadia in 26 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . 2 .
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... Death of his Father , Sir Richard Gre- fham , Sir William Danfell fucceeded him as Agent to King Edward , for taking up Money of the Merchants of Antwerp ; but he being difmiffed , Mr. Gresham was put into his Place ; and tranf- acted ...
... Death of his Father , Sir Richard Gre- fham , Sir William Danfell fucceeded him as Agent to King Edward , for taking up Money of the Merchants of Antwerp ; but he being difmiffed , Mr. Gresham was put into his Place ; and tranf- acted ...
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... plenteously brought in again , by the raifing . Again , when he took this Service in hand , the King's Credit on the other fide was fmall , and yet before before his Death he was in fuch Repute , both 88 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . 7 %
... plenteously brought in again , by the raifing . Again , when he took this Service in hand , the King's Credit on the other fide was fmall , and yet before before his Death he was in fuch Repute , both 88 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . 7 %
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... Death ; and promised him then to reward him better hereafter , faying , he should know that he ferved a King . The laft Confideration he urges to engage the Queen to reinftate him in his Agency , or to reward him fome other way for his ...
... Death ; and promised him then to reward him better hereafter , faying , he should know that he ferved a King . The laft Confideration he urges to engage the Queen to reinftate him in his Agency , or to reward him fome other way for his ...
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... Death , they are faid to have amounted to a thoufand one -hundred twenty - feven Pounds , fifteen Shillings , and eight Pence . He had also another House at Weftacre in Norfolk , where the Effects were valued at a thousand fix hundred ...
... Death , they are faid to have amounted to a thoufand one -hundred twenty - feven Pounds , fifteen Shillings , and eight Pence . He had also another House at Weftacre in Norfolk , where the Effects were valued at a thousand fix hundred ...
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الصفحة 373 - Penniston, and there laid the foundation of that knowledge of the Greek and Roman languages, which he afterwards improved so far, by his own application to the classic authors, as to hear the works of Euclid, Archimedes, and Diophantus, read in their original Greek.
الصفحة 378 - He could judge of the size of a room, into which he was introduced, of the distance he was from the wall ; and if ever he had walked over a pavement in courts, piazzas, &c. which reflected a sound, and was afterwards conducted thither again, he could exactly tell whereabouts in the walk he was placed, merely. by the note it sounded.
الصفحة 153 - Scaevolas; all which accomplishments were but ministerial and subservient to that on which his hopes and ambition were singly placed, the reputation of an orator: To qualify himself therefore particularly for this, he attended the pleadings of all the speakers of his time ; heard the daily lectures of the most eminent orators of Greece, and was perpetually composing somewhat at home, and declaiming under their correction : and that he might neglect nothing which could help in any degree to improve...
الصفحة 376 - But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification for this study ; and that the blind are by necessity more abstracted than others, for which reason...
الصفحة 373 - Here it was that his genius first appeared: for he very soon became able to work the common questions, to make long calculations by the strength of his memory, and to form new rules to himself for the more ready solving of such" problems as are often proposed to learners, as trials of skill.
الصفحة 377 - ... who could see it. He could tell when any thing was held near his face, or when he passed by a tree at no great distance, provided the air was calm, and...
الصفحة 404 - ... and received all that came to him ; preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
الصفحة 269 - And health and vigor are at once restor'd. lapis first perceiv'd the closing wound, And first the footsteps of a god he found. "Arms! arms!
الصفحة 97 - London, and a great convenience to the merchant^ who wanted such a place to meet and transact their affairs in, but likewise contributed very much to the promotion of trade, both by the number of shops erected there, and the much greater number of the poor, who were employed in working for them. And the donation of his own mansionhouse for a seat of learning and the liberal arts, with...
الصفحة 382 - This flatters his lazinefs, it flatters my judgment, who always thought that (univerfal as his talents are) this is eminently and peculiarly his, above all the writers I know living or dead : I do not except Horace.