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Pagina 6
... obtained a license to practise medicine from the College of Physicians , he was summoned by them , and fined , and on refusing to pay his fine , was com- mitted to prison , from which , however , he was discharged in 1602. Neverthe less ...
... obtained a license to practise medicine from the College of Physicians , he was summoned by them , and fined , and on refusing to pay his fine , was com- mitted to prison , from which , however , he was discharged in 1602. Neverthe less ...
Pagina 11
... obtained from Nonacris in Arcadia , and the know- ledge of which Pliny ( H. N. xxx . 16 ) would lead us to believe was obtained from Aristotle ; and was said to be of so corrosive a nature , as to eat through every substance , but the ...
... obtained from Nonacris in Arcadia , and the know- ledge of which Pliny ( H. N. xxx . 16 ) would lead us to believe was obtained from Aristotle ; and was said to be of so corrosive a nature , as to eat through every substance , but the ...
Pagina 16
... obtained with her the princi- pality of Bearn and the title of king . He was a weak and irresolute prince , and wavered all his life between the two religions and parties which then divided France . Suspicion of the constable ...
... obtained with her the princi- pality of Bearn and the title of king . He was a weak and irresolute prince , and wavered all his life between the two religions and parties which then divided France . Suspicion of the constable ...
Pagina 29
... obtained , in the division of the provinces , the whole of Gaul on either side the Alps , with the exception of the Narbonnese . In the war with the con- spirators , Antony was conspicuous for his military talents ; and after the en ...
... obtained , in the division of the provinces , the whole of Gaul on either side the Alps , with the exception of the Narbonnese . In the war with the con- spirators , Antony was conspicuous for his military talents ; and after the en ...
Pagina 45
... obtained a decree for the expulsion of Lachares , for having formed an alliance with Antiochus , with the view of betraying the city into his hands . He opposed likewise , most strenuously , the grant of a body - guard to Theodotus ...
... obtained a decree for the expulsion of Lachares , for having formed an alliance with Antiochus , with the view of betraying the city into his hands . He opposed likewise , most strenuously , the grant of a body - guard to Theodotus ...
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Pagina 468 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 493 - Mémoires historiques et géographiques sur les pays situés entre la mer Noire et la mer Caspienne...
Pagina 468 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 375 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Pagina 276 - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier par feu M.
Pagina 258 - Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies or gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time ; and because I lay still, and did not cry, my lord Chancellor and Master Rich took pains to rack me with their own hands, till I was nigh dead.
Pagina 302 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
Pagina 231 - Or plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue ; but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in gentlemen and noblemen's houses ; and commodious also for all such as have forgot the Latin tongue, and would by themselves without a schoolmaster, in...
Pagina 462 - My Lord, I see I must be your homager, and hold land of your gift ; but do you know the manner of doing homage in law ? always it is with a saving of his faith to the King and his other Lords ; and therefore, my Lord (said I), I can be no more yours than I was, and it must be with the ancient savings : and if I grow to be a rich man, you will give me leave to give it back to some of your unrewarded followers.
Pagina 81 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.