Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Parr, LL.D.J. Bohn, 1829 - 850 pages |
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... Harrow to Stanmore , and whose admiration of his talents still continues . Gratefully do I acknowledge the assistance I have received during the composition of these Memoirs , from other learned friends of Dr. Parr , and es- pecially ...
... Harrow to Stanmore , and whose admiration of his talents still continues . Gratefully do I acknowledge the assistance I have received during the composition of these Memoirs , from other learned friends of Dr. Parr , and es- pecially ...
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... Harrow on the Hill January 15th , O. S. 1747. * He was the son of Samuel Parr , by Anne , the daughter of Elizabeth Bates , of Stam- ford , Lincolnshire , and Leonard Mignard , who was descended from a French refugee family , and ...
... Harrow on the Hill January 15th , O. S. 1747. * He was the son of Samuel Parr , by Anne , the daughter of Elizabeth Bates , of Stam- ford , Lincolnshire , and Leonard Mignard , who was descended from a French refugee family , and ...
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... Harrow on the Hill , and died there January 23d , 1766 , having lost his first and justly beloved wife , Anne , who died No- vember 5th , 1762 . Mr. Parr was distinguished by great professional knowledge , by strong common sense , by a ...
... Harrow on the Hill , and died there January 23d , 1766 , having lost his first and justly beloved wife , Anne , who died No- vember 5th , 1762 . Mr. Parr was distinguished by great professional knowledge , by strong common sense , by a ...
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... Harrow . * He passed through the * The following Letter of Dr. Parr's father to a friend , dated Harrow , May 23d , 1760 , shews that there was an intention to send him to Eton , which did not succeed . His cousin Francis was soon after ...
... Harrow . * He passed through the * The following Letter of Dr. Parr's father to a friend , dated Harrow , May 23d , 1760 , shews that there was an intention to send him to Eton , which did not succeed . His cousin Francis was soon after ...
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... Harrow on the Hill , Middlesex . Having occasion to put the Monitor in my study , a dispute arose about the volumes , I beg therefore you will ask Theodo- sius if there are more than three volumes , an appendix , and a book with notes ...
... Harrow on the Hill , Middlesex . Having occasion to put the Monitor in my study , a dispute arose about the volumes , I beg therefore you will ask Theodo- sius if there are more than three volumes , an appendix , and a book with notes ...
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Page 402 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 402 - And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded : for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
Page 128 - Wherefore, if the gentleman's son be apt to learning, let him be admitted; if not apt, let the poor man's child, that is apt, enter his room.
Page 305 - Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian, not admitted into the collections of their respective works," itself a collection which our shelves could ill spare, though maliciously republished by Dr.
Page 122 - ... with triumph, if that fellowcreature should become the victim of his resentment, be it just or unjust. But the minds of children are open to impressions of every sort ; and, indeed, wonderful is the facility with which a judicious instructor may habituate them to tender emotions. I have therefore always considered mercy to beings of an inferior species as a virtue which children are very capable of learning, but which is most difficult to...
Page 75 - ... and passengers by many foolish acts ; such as riding in high prelatical pomp through the streets on a black saddle, bearing in his hand a long cane or wand, such as women used to have, with an ivory head like a crosier, which was probably the reason why he liked it:" We see by this he was already thinking of the bishopric.
Page 125 - Or plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue ; but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in gentlemen and noblemen's houses ; and commodious also for all such as have forgot the Latin tongue, and would by themselves without a schoolmaster, in short time, and with small pains, recover a sufficient hability to understand, write, and speak Latin.
Page 317 - And though you must suppose that, in that stormy weather, he was more than half-boots over, he kept his seat and dismounted safely, when the ark landed on Mount Ararat. Image now to yourself this illustrious Cavalier mounted on his hackney : and see if it does not bring before you the Church, bestrid by some lumpish minister of state, who turns and winds it at his pleasure. The only difference is, that Gog believed the preacher of righteousness and religion."— pp.
Page 129 - Schools, it is, inter alia, statuted and ordained, that there be a school settled and established, and a schoolmaster appointed in every parish not already provided, by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish ; and for that effect, that the heritors in every parish meet and provide a commodious house for a school, and settle and modify a salary to a schoolmaster...
Page 138 - Oh, how oft shall he On faith and changed gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire, Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold; Who always vacant, always amiable, Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful ! Hapless they To whom thou...