General Biography Volume 2; Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ...whether its effects upon young persons, even admitting the truth of its religious system, have not been too powerful in inspiring terrific ideas. Of his other works, also, several are of the allegorical or parabolical kind; and some are still popular, though not in an equal degTee with the first. The " Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus," is the most considerable of these. His " Grace abounding to the chief of Sinners," in an account of his own life, is one of the most interesting of his works. On the whole, Bunyan was certainly an extraordinary man; and his moral character, after it was once formed, seems to have been worthy of his religious zeal and sincerity. Biogr. Br Han.--A. BUOMMATTEI, Benedict, one of the earliest Italian grammarians, was born at Florence in 1581, and entered into the priesthood. He passed part of his time at Rome and Padua, but the greater part in his native city, following the duties of his function, and pursuing literary studies. He was a member of several academies, particularly those of della Crusca and the Apatisti, which he assiduously attended, frequently reciting at them lectures and discourses, of which many have been published. But he is principally known by his two books "On the Tuscan Language," which is the first work in which the rules and precepts for writing Italian with correctness are laid down in order and method, so as to deserve the title of a grammar of the language. Several editions of it have been given, and it has always been accounted one of the most useful books on the subject. Buommattei died at Florence in 1647. Tirabojchi.--A. BUONACCORSI, Philip, an elegant modern Latin writer, was born of a noble family at S. Gimignano in Tuscany, in 1437. He resided at Rome in his y...