The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 |
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... never be able to complete , to any effectual purpose , the work he had undertaken . Mr. Brindley , hearing of the report , and being sensible that he could not depend upon his master for proper instruc- tions , determined to see , with ...
... never be able to complete , to any effectual purpose , the work he had undertaken . Mr. Brindley , hearing of the report , and being sensible that he could not depend upon his master for proper instruc- tions , determined to see , with ...
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... never before was shewn where any of them were to be erected . " This unfavourable verdict did not deter the duke of Bridgewater from following the opinion of his own engineer . The aqueduct was immedi- ately begun ; and it was carried ...
... never before was shewn where any of them were to be erected . " This unfavourable verdict did not deter the duke of Bridgewater from following the opinion of his own engineer . The aqueduct was immedi- ately begun ; and it was carried ...
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... never to be forgotten in this kingdom . Neither ought the economy and forecast which are apparent through the whole work to be omitted . His economy and forecast are peculiarly dis- cernible in the stops , or floodgates , fixed in the ...
... never to be forgotten in this kingdom . Neither ought the economy and forecast which are apparent through the whole work to be omitted . His economy and forecast are peculiarly dis- cernible in the stops , or floodgates , fixed in the ...
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... never was his custom to make either , unless he was obliged to do it to satisfy his employers . His memory was so remarkable , that he has often declared that he could remember , and execute , all the parts of the most complex machine ...
... never was his custom to make either , unless he was obliged to do it to satisfy his employers . His memory was so remarkable , that he has often declared that he could remember , and execute , all the parts of the most complex machine ...
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... never seemed in his element , if he was not either planning or executing some great work , or conversing with his friends upon subjects of importance . He was once prevailed upon , when in Lon- don , to see a play . Having never been at ...
... never seemed in his element , if he was not either planning or executing some great work , or conversing with his friends upon subjects of importance . He was once prevailed upon , when in Lon- don , to see a play . Having never been at ...
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Seite 338 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 338 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 332 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Seite 137 - He was once a man, and of some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Seite 144 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
Seite 382 - Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang.
Seite 144 - ... a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
Seite 463 - Grace to name a day, when he might introduce that modest and unfortu nate poet to his new patron. At last an appointment was made, and the place of meeting was agreed to be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and his friend attended accordingly ; the Duke joined them...
Seite 463 - When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employments...