The Works of Mons. de la Bruyere: The characters or, manners of the age (cont.) The characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek with a prefatory discourse concerning Theophrastus, by Mr. de la Bruyere. Mons. de la Bruyere's Speech upon his admission into the French academy, June the 15th, 1693. Of the manner of living with great men, written after the method of mons. de la Bruyere, by the late N. Rowe, esqD. Browne, 1752 |
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الصفحة 210 - Of the signs of Fair Weather ;" " Of the signs of Tempest;" "Of the signs of Rain;" "Of Smells;" " Of Sweat ;" " Of the Vertigo ;" " Of Weariness ;" " Of the Relaxation of the Nerves;" " Of Swooning;" "Of Fish which live out of water ;" " Of Animals which change their colour;" "Of Animals which are born suddenly ;" " Of Animals subject to envy ;" and, " The Characters of Men." In his botanical works,
الصفحة 214 - Among other remarks equally sensible and lively he says, 'The men whose manners Theophrastus has described were Athenians and we are Frenchmen: and if we add to the difference of place and climate the long interval of time, and consider that this book was written in the last year of the 104th Olympiad, 340 years before the Christian era, and that, * This name, which was given him for his brilliancy of thought and elegance of expression, signifies 'divine speaker'.
الصفحة 328 - Together with a particular relation of a journey from the port of Moka to the court of the king of Yemen, in the second expedition, AD 1711, 1712, 1713.
الصفحة 328 - Irish histories." A reprint of the Dublin edition of 1633. HARWOOD (EDWARD). Biographia classica: the lives and characters of all the classic authors, the Grecian and Roman poets, historians, orators, and biographers. . . . [By EDWARD HARWOOD.] The second edition, corrected and improv'd. To which is now added, at the end of every life, a list of the best and most curious editions of each classic author. In two volumes. London, 1750. 12° (5.1x2.8) [1019] Biographia classica: the lives and characters...
الصفحة 22 - They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
الصفحة 322 - Going into the Company of great Men is like going into the other World ; you ought to flay till your called.
الصفحة 328 - Hiftonographer to the French King, and Member of the Royal Academy at Paris. Tranflated from the French by a Gentleman, 2 vol.
الصفحة 319 - A juft Confideration for the feveral Degrees of Men, as the Orders of Providence have plac'd them above us, is ufeful, not only to the correcting of our Manners and keeping our Common Converfation in the Bounds of Politenefs and Civility, but has ev'na better Confequence, in difpofmg the Mind to a Religious Humility.