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Lives in Biographica Britannica, Dict. of Nat. Biog., Johnson's Lives of Poets, and by Lucy Aikin, Macaulay's Essay, Drake's Essays Illustrative of Tatler, Guardian, and Spectator; Pope's and Swift's Correspondence, etc. Historian, studied law and was called to the Bar in 1807.
On the other hand he is often artificial, extravagant, and turgid, and his ultimate literary position is difficult to forecast. Lives by Froude , Hitchman , see also Dictionary of Nat. Biog. etc. Poet and philosophical writer, s. of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and ed. at Aberdeen; he was, in 1760, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy there.
Daisy covered her ears, but there was no explosion, only a long-drawn-out low crash as the fragments hit twenty floors below and dust whooshed out sideways. "Spectacular!" Fay summed up. "Knew you'd enjoy it. That little trick was first conceived by the great Tesla during his last fruity years. Research discovered it in his biog we just made the dream come true.
The writings of Aristotle were not unknown to his immediate followers. Part of the text of Plutarch is here manifestly corrupt. The subject has been examined by several writers. See art. "Aristotle," Biog. The place is named Galepsus in Wyttenbach's edition, but in a note the editor admits that the true name is Ædepsus. The hot springs near Cape Therma in Eubœa are supposed to be those of Ædepsus.
Advancement of Learning, bk. II; ibid., III, 490. Works, IV, 400-401. Ibid., IV, 296. The book is supposed to have been written during the last twenty years of Selden's life, that is, between 1634 and 1654. "Witches." Nor did Selden believe in possessions. See article on Hobbes in Dict. Nat. Biog. Leviathan , 7. See also his chapter on Dæmonology in the Leviathan, in Works, 384.
Take it therefore either way; that the archbishop did or did not pitch on a young man of twenty to write that history, his authority was as suspicious as could be. Vide Biog. Britannica, p. 3159. It is very true; nor am I inclined to impute adulation to one of the honestest statesmen and brightest names in our annals.
Up, and to Alderman Backewell's He was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth. After the Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money transactions. He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679, and in the Oxford parliament of 1680. According to the writer of the life in the "Diet. of Nat. Biog.
He was born in 1766 at Burston Hall, Staffordshire, and lived until 1854. Nat. Biog. Vol. The Fourdrinier brothers had spent L60,000 upon this venture, and the immediate result of the finished invention was bankruptcy to the unfortunate inventors.
"Writer," says the City Remembrancer behind the hack of his hand. "Such a distinguished writer. The author of so many famous biog " "Novels," breathes the City Remembrancer, gazing up at the ceiling. "So many famous novels," continues the Lord Mayor quite undisturbed, for he is used to it by this time. "The author of East Lynne "
The Scepsis Scientifica was really The Vanity of Dogmatising recast. So at least says Leslie Stephen, Dict. Nat. Biog. Glanvill himself, in Essays on Several Important Subjects , says that the sixth essay, "Philosophical Considerations against Modern Sadducism," had been printed four times already, i. e., before 1676. The edition of 1668 had been revised.
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