General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 3G. G. and J. Robinson, 1802 - Biography |
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... Paris , was born at the village in the diocese of Chalons , whence he took his name . He studied at Paris under Gerson and other masters , and became rector of the university in 1393. He first ap- peared as a writer in a letter to ...
... Paris , was born at the village in the diocese of Chalons , whence he took his name . He studied at Paris under Gerson and other masters , and became rector of the university in 1393. He first ap- peared as a writer in a letter to ...
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... Paris : he speaks very freely in another piece of the abuse of festivals in the church , which he says are al- ready so numerous , that it would be more ex- pedient to retrench than to add to them . A treatise on " Simoniacal Prelates ...
... Paris : he speaks very freely in another piece of the abuse of festivals in the church , which he says are al- ready so numerous , that it would be more ex- pedient to retrench than to add to them . A treatise on " Simoniacal Prelates ...
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... Paris and Montpellier , took his doctor's de- gree at Valence in 1672 , and returning to his native place , married , and practised as a physi- cian with great success . With his professional studies he joined those of polite literature ...
... Paris and Montpellier , took his doctor's de- gree at Valence in 1672 , and returning to his native place , married , and practised as a physi- cian with great success . With his professional studies he joined those of polite literature ...
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... Paris , Clovis openly proposed an invasion of Alaric's dominions in the following short and expressive speech : " It much grieves me to see the fairest part of Gaul in possession of the Arians . Let us march with the aid of God , and ...
... Paris , Clovis openly proposed an invasion of Alaric's dominions in the following short and expressive speech : " It much grieves me to see the fairest part of Gaul in possession of the Arians . Let us march with the aid of God , and ...
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... Paris , in 1615. The antiquities of Constantinople have since been printed at the royal press in Paris , with the notes of Lam- becius , and the other pieces with those of Goar . Moreri . - A . CODRUS , the last king of Athens , is re ...
... Paris , in 1615. The antiquities of Constantinople have since been printed at the royal press in Paris , with the notes of Lam- becius , and the other pieces with those of Goar . Moreri . - A . CODRUS , the last king of Athens , is re ...
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Page 65 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Page 457 - She parcell'd out the Bible by retail, But still expounded what she sold or gave, To keep it in her power to damn and save. Scripture was scarce, and as the market went, Poor laymen took salvation on content, As needy men take money, good or bad ; God's word they had not, but the priest's they had.
Page 495 - THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians of our isle, Whom public voice approves, or lot of birth To the great charge assigns: ye good, of all Degrees, all sects, be present to my song.
Page 8 - He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising the meanest, of adorning the most barren, and of diversifying the most similar, topics...
Page 61 - The church hath power to decree rites and ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith...
Page 328 - An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David King of Israel: interspersed with various conjectures, digressions, and disquisitions.
Page 134 - Hence he is ever in buskins ; and dressed out with magnificent elegance. In every sentence, we see the marks of labour and art ; nothing of that ease which expresses a sentiment coming natural and warm from the heart.
Page 377 - When he had finished his business he returned to London; was made Master of the Horse to the Duchess of York; and married the Lady Frances, daughter of the Earl of Burlington, and widow of Colonel Courteney.
Page 365 - Oxon. 12mo. 1655. a very learned work, in which he attempts to prove that the Greeks borrowed the story of the Pythian Apollo, and all that rendered the Oracle of Delphi famous, from Scripture, and the book of Joshua in particular.
Page 136 - 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.