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... French writer , was born at Clermont in Auvergne in 1678 , and educated for the church . In his youth he had a canonry in the colle- giate church of Notre Dame de Monferrand , but resigned it to one of his brothers , that he might be at ...
... French writer , was born at Clermont in Auvergne in 1678 , and educated for the church . In his youth he had a canonry in the colle- giate church of Notre Dame de Monferrand , but resigned it to one of his brothers , that he might be at ...
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... French academy , was born at Paris in 1596. His abilities and probity re- commended him to some very honourable employments , and he particularly enjoyed the confidence of cardinal Mazarin . He was author of the following translations ...
... French academy , was born at Paris in 1596. His abilities and probity re- commended him to some very honourable employments , and he particularly enjoyed the confidence of cardinal Mazarin . He was author of the following translations ...
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... French . A collection of the whole in Latin was published at Francfort in 1658 , in 8vo , and again 1659 , in 4to . An English translation was published by Christo- pher Pack , London , 1689 , fol . ' GLISSON ( FRANCIS ) , an English ...
... French . A collection of the whole in Latin was published at Francfort in 1658 , in 8vo , and again 1659 , in 4to . An English translation was published by Christo- pher Pack , London , 1689 , fol . ' GLISSON ( FRANCIS ) , an English ...
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... French music , by his conforming to the genius of the French language , and flattering the ancient national taste . All his operas proved excellent preparations for a better style of composition than the French had been used to ; as the ...
... French music , by his conforming to the genius of the French language , and flattering the ancient national taste . All his operas proved excellent preparations for a better style of composition than the French had been used to ; as the ...
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... French operas , he was un- rivalled . But he was not so universal as to be exclusively admired and praised at the expence of all other composers ancient and modern . His style was peculiarly convenient to France , where there were no ...
... French operas , he was un- rivalled . But he was not so universal as to be exclusively admired and praised at the expence of all other composers ancient and modern . His style was peculiarly convenient to France , where there were no ...
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Page 406 - He quotes them, as he tells us himself, as witnesses, whose conspiring testimony, mightily strengthened and confirmed by their discordance on almost every other subject, is a conclusive proof of the unanimity of the whole human race on the great rules of duty and the fundamental principles of morals. On such matters, poets and orators are the most unexceptionable of all witnesses ; for they address themselves to the general feelings and sympathies of mankind...
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Page 319 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...
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