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], 1814 |
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The General Biographical Dictionary– Containing an Historical and ..., 20 tomas Alexander Chalmers Visos knygos peržiūra - 1815 |
The General Biographical Dictionary– Containing an Historical ..., 20 tomas Alexander Chalmers Visos knygos peržiūra - 1815 |
The General Biographical Dictionary– Containing an Historical and ..., 20 tomas Visos knygos peržiūra - 1815 |
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346 psl. - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
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444 psl. - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.
448 psl. - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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513 psl. - I acknowledge you are fitter to be the bishop of Durham than I am to be parson of this church of yours. I ask forgiveness for past injuries. Forgive me, father. I know you have enemies, but while I live bishop of Durham, be secure, none of them shall cause you any farther trouble.
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