The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1814 - Biography |
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... friends of the deceased , who unanimously declared they had never heard a finer dis- course . But their astonishment was great , when they were told that it was taken from our liturgy , a book which , 3 Johnson and Chalmers's English ...
... friends of the deceased , who unanimously declared they had never heard a finer dis- course . But their astonishment was great , when they were told that it was taken from our liturgy , a book which , 3 Johnson and Chalmers's English ...
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... friend , that he might be restored to life again , and for himself , that he might be forgiven for being pre- sent and countenancing so much excess : and he vowed to God , that he would never again keep company in that manner , nor ...
... friend , that he might be restored to life again , and for himself , that he might be forgiven for being pre- sent and countenancing so much excess : and he vowed to God , that he would never again keep company in that manner , nor ...
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... friendship with him , but left him at his death one of his executors . Selden also prescribed to him a more enlarged pursuit of learning , which he had before confined to his own profession ; so that he arrived in time to a considerable ...
... friendship with him , but left him at his death one of his executors . Selden also prescribed to him a more enlarged pursuit of learning , which he had before confined to his own profession ; so that he arrived in time to a considerable ...
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... friends , and the black and dismal aspect of the times ; and at last Hales asked Faringdon to walk out with him into the church - yard . There this un- happy man's necessities pressed him to tell his friend that he had been forced to ...
... friends , and the black and dismal aspect of the times ; and at last Hales asked Faringdon to walk out with him into the church - yard . There this un- happy man's necessities pressed him to tell his friend that he had been forced to ...
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... friend . All which monies here bequested , do at this present rest intrusted in the hands of my singular good friends Mr. William Smith , and Mr. Thomas Mon- tague . " Moreover , all my Greek and Latin books ( except St. Jerome's works ...
... friend . All which monies here bequested , do at this present rest intrusted in the hands of my singular good friends Mr. William Smith , and Mr. Thomas Mon- tague . " Moreover , all my Greek and Latin books ( except St. Jerome's works ...
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Page 279 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
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Page 375 - O thou eternal God, author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether...
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Page 119 - He was of that rare affability and temper in debate, and of that seeming humility and submission of judgment, as if he brought no opinion of his own with him, but a desire of information and instruction ; yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating, and under the notion of doubts, insinuating his objections; that he infused his own opinions 'into those from whom he pretended to learn and receive them.
Page 149 - October 26, 1712, he was elected a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter.
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Page 119 - And even with them who were able to preserve themselves from his infusions, and discerned those opinions to be fixed in him with which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person.
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