Author: William Tooke
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ISBN: 9781330504352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 4 of 15 Cicero (Marcus Tullius), was one of the greatest men of antiquity, whether we consider him as an orator, a statement, or a philosopher. He was born Jan. 3, in the 647th year of Rome, about 107 years before Christ. His mother's name was Helvia, who was rich and well descended. As to his father's family, nothing was delivered of it but in extremes: which is not to be wondered at in the history of a man, whose life was so exposed to envy, as Cicero's, and who fell a victim at last to the power of his enemies. Some derive his descent from kings, other from mechanics: but the truth, as it commonly happens is such cases, lay between both: for his family, though it had never borne any of the great offices of the republic, was yet very ancient and honourable; of principal distinction and nobility in that part of Italy in which it resided; and of equestrian rank, from its first admission to the freedom of Rome. The place of his birth was Arpinum; a city anciently of the Samnites, now part of the kingdom of Naples. It had the honour also of producing the great C. Marius; which gave occasion to Pompey to say in a public speech, that Rome was indebted to this corporation for two citizen, who had, each in his turn, preserved it from ruin. The territory of Arpinum was rude and mountainous, to which Cicero applies Homer's description of Ithaca: 'Tis rough indeed, yet breeds a generous race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656138265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 11 of 15 He was a member of the French academy, and of the academy of lnfcriptions and belles lettres and was fitted to do honour to any fociety. In the firft volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions there are two fine differtations of his one upon the divine honours paid to the governors of the Roman provinces, during the continuance. Of the republic the other, upon the temple, which Cicero con ceived a defign of confecrating to the memory of his beloved daughter Tullia, under the title of Fanum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Anonymous
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ISBN: 9783337509231
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Pages : 584
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Author: William Tooke
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ISBN: 9781331035145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6 of 15 Euler (Leonard) was born at Basil, on the 14th of April 1707, [A]; he was the son of Paul Euler, and of Margaret Brucker (of a family illustrious in literature), and spent the first year of his life at the village of Richen, of which place his father was Protestant minister. Being intended for the church, his father, who had himself studied under James Bernouilli, taught him man mathematics, with a view to their proving the ground-work of his other studies, and in hopes that they would turn out a noble and useful secondary occupation. But they were destined to become a principal one; and Euler, assisted and perhaps secretly encouraged by John Bernouilli, who easily discovered that he would be the greatest scholar he should ever educate, soon declared his intention of devoting his life to that pursuit. This intention the wife father did not thwart, but the son did not so blindly adhere to it, as not to connect with it a more than common improvements in every other kind of useful learning, insomuch that in his latter days men often wondered how with such a superiority in one branch, he could have been so near to eminence in all the rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN: 9781331104438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 15 But conceiving this to be the natural tendency of such works, and thinking it very allowable for authors in every nation to write more particularly for their countrymen than for any others, we have not been greatly solicitous to avoid it. At the same time, we have not omitted to consider, that if every person who attains a certain rank in the learned or active professions, were admitted to claim a place in such a repository, its extent would become too enormous to be useful. Besides adding the names which were deficient, attention has been employed throughout to improve the style, and correct the prominent errors of the former work. That these various ends might be attained within a moderate time, the proprietors divided the care of the undertaking between three literary men. For the first five volumes one gentleman is entirely responsible; the remaining ten were consigned to two writers, who, for no very important reason, chose to take them alternately. Though the work is apparently extended only by the addition of three volumes, the actual augmentation is much greater; the volumes being not only, in general, thicker than before, but so printed, as to contain in each page four or five lines more, than a page of the preceding edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Pre-Imprint Collection
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ISBN: 9781330518038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 5 of 15 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hugh James Rose
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ISBN: 9780331367942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 9 of 12 J evon, (thomas, ) a dramatic author and actor of the seventeenth century. The Devil of a Wife, or the Comical Transformation, London, 1695, 4to, claims him as its author, being the original of the standard farce of The Devil to Pay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hugh James Rose
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ISBN: 9780282672430
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Excerpt from A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 12 Aaron, (berschis), author of a rabbinical treatise on morali called Maabar Jabbok; The Ford 0 Jabbok, published at Mantua, 1626. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hugh James Rose
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469167698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780267433049
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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8 of 12 Lord Kuffel, took him, on that account, to be one of her domef'tic chaplains and a greater favour he received, upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
