Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George BuchananBell and Bradfute, 1807 - 318 Seiten |
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... scholar who derives his origin from the same coun- try , is bound to cherish and revere his me mory . Nor is his reputation confined to his native soil , and to the sister kingdoms ; he has received the homage of every learn- ed nation ...
... scholar who derives his origin from the same coun- try , is bound to cherish and revere his me mory . Nor is his reputation confined to his native soil , and to the sister kingdoms ; he has received the homage of every learn- ed nation ...
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... scholars , will in some measure appear from the subsequent memoirs : but it may not here be superfluous to exhibit the pre- vious testimonies of several British authors of distinction , who flourished during the two centuries which have ...
... scholars , will in some measure appear from the subsequent memoirs : but it may not here be superfluous to exhibit the pre- vious testimonies of several British authors of distinction , who flourished during the two centuries which have ...
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... scholar and a courtier . In poetry he was deemed unrivalled by his contemporaries . He is more nervous , more various , more elegant than the Italian poets . He has imitated those of Rome with greater grace and purity . His psalms , in ...
... scholar and a courtier . In poetry he was deemed unrivalled by his contemporaries . He is more nervous , more various , more elegant than the Italian poets . He has imitated those of Rome with greater grace and purity . His psalms , in ...
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... scholars , and some time elapsed before the spirit of antiquity was trans- fused into its admirers . The first man ... scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republic- an enthusiasm . This praise is merited by his ...
... scholars , and some time elapsed before the spirit of antiquity was trans- fused into its admirers . The first man ... scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republic- an enthusiasm . This praise is merited by his ...
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... scholar ; but his project seems not to have been received with ade- quate encouragement . He proceeded how- ever to the completion of his work : and in the year 1751 , after the author's decease , proposals for printing it were issued ...
... scholar ; but his project seems not to have been received with ade- quate encouragement . He proceeded how- ever to the completion of his work : and in the year 1751 , after the author's decease , proposals for printing it were issued ...
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Seite 257 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite xi - Buchanan ; and he, too, seems to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republican enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected though incomparable tract, ' De Jure Regni,' in which the principles of popular politics, and the maxims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed.
Seite 293 - Latin poesy,' says this mild contemporary, 'much honoured in other countries, pleasant in conversation, rehearsing at all occasions moralities short and instructive, whereof he had abundance, inventing where he wanted. He was also religious, but was easily abused, and so facile, that he was led by every company that he haunted, which made him factious in his old days, for he spoke and wrote as those who were about him informed him; for he was become careless, following in many things the vulgar opinion;...
Seite 235 - ... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom...
Seite 161 - ANE DETECTIOUN OF THE DUINGES OF MARIE QUENE OF SCOTTES, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erie Bothwell, And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by GB With oval portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by G.
Seite 170 - ... the cat. His venerable preceptor, who might have pardoned the remark, was perhaps offended with the mode in which it was uttered : he threw aside his book with indignation, and bestowed upon the delinquent that species of scholastic discipline which is deemed most ignominious. The Countess of Mar, being attracted by the wailing which ensued, hastened to the scene of his disgrace ; and, taking the precious deposit in her arms, she demanded of Buchanan, how he presumed to lay his hand on the Lord's...
Seite 308 - Turnebus, who was associated with him in the same college, and whose decisions will not be rashly controverted, has characterized him as a man of consummate erudition. Most of the ancient writers had limited their aspiring hopes to one department of literature; and even to excel in one demands the happy perseverance of a cultivated genius.
Seite 235 - Yet if these things be not resented seriously and timely by them who have the remedy in their power, but that such...
Seite 246 - Although the bounty of nature and the instruction of your governors may at present secure you against this error, yet am I compelled to entertain some slight degree of suspicion, lest evil communication — the alluring nurse of the vices — should lend an unhappy impulse to your still tender mind, especially as I am not ignorant with what facility the external
Seite 168 - My Lady Mar was wise and sharp, and held the king in great awe, and so did Mr. George Buchanan. Mr. Peter Young was more gentle, and was...