Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Parr, LL.D.J. Bohn, 1829 - 850 pages |
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... Persons protected . 627 XVI . Family Affairs . 633 XVII . Toleration - Religious Opinions . 654 XVIII . Metaphysical studies - Projected publication of Collier's Clavis Universalis - Hartley- Copleston - Dugald Stewart XIX . Terentianus ...
... Persons protected . 627 XVI . Family Affairs . 633 XVII . Toleration - Religious Opinions . 654 XVIII . Metaphysical studies - Projected publication of Collier's Clavis Universalis - Hartley- Copleston - Dugald Stewart XIX . Terentianus ...
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... persons of the age , and from the most distinguished persons of the age to him , which , if they could be minutely looked over and published in order , would in themselves be an ample history of his life . Thirdly . A vast mass of ...
... persons of the age , and from the most distinguished persons of the age to him , which , if they could be minutely looked over and published in order , would in themselves be an ample history of his life . Thirdly . A vast mass of ...
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... person bore the marks of his character ; stiff and strong , singular and commanding . His countenance , before the small - pox , so handsome , that his own sister declares her complacency at finding that the small - pox had destroyed ...
... person bore the marks of his character ; stiff and strong , singular and commanding . His countenance , before the small - pox , so handsome , that his own sister declares her complacency at finding that the small - pox had destroyed ...
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... person throughout . As a boy at school , a youth at college , and a man of the world , he always bore the same ... persons of the drama are , Ahasuerus , Esther , Haman , Mordecai , Carsnia , Haruman , the Priests , the Council ; and the ...
... person throughout . As a boy at school , a youth at college , and a man of the world , he always bore the same ... persons of the drama are , Ahasuerus , Esther , Haman , Mordecai , Carsnia , Haruman , the Priests , the Council ; and the ...
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... person I am acquainted with ; but your declarations against preaching were circumstances in which I always suspected your veracity . You have begun betimes to hold forth ; the very day you were or- dained . I took the degree of M.A. ...
... person I am acquainted with ; but your declarations against preaching were circumstances in which I always suspected your veracity . You have begun betimes to hold forth ; the very day you were or- dained . I took the degree of M.A. ...
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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...