History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Volume 2

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University Press, 1869

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Page 868 - An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Spiritual Persons holding of Farms ; and for enforcing the Residence of Spiritual Persons on their Benefices ; and for the Support and Maintenance of Stipendiary Curates in England...
Page 649 - ... and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away. It fell to my share to be...
Page 649 - I came before them, they took my name and abode, examined me why, contrary to the ordinance made, that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the Nativity...
Page 724 - I think, a just opinion, that whatever renders religion more rational, renders it more credible ; that he who, by a diligent and faithful examination of the original records, dismisses from the system one article which contradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning, of mankind, does more towards recommending the belief, and, with the belief, the influence, of Christianity, to the understandings and consciences of serious inquirers, and through them to universal reception and authority,...
Page 699 - I was tutor to his lordship's son, and afterwards chaplain to himself; and I shall always esteem it both my honour and my happiness to have spent fourteen years of my life in his family and acquaintance, whom even envy itself will allow to be the glory of our church and nation ; who, by his vast and comprehensive genius, is as great in all parts of learning as the greatest next himself are in any.
Page 650 - As we went up to receive the sacrament, the miscreants held their muskets against us, as if they would have shot us at the altar, but yet suffered us to finish the office of communion, as perhaps not having instructions what to do in case they found us in that action.
Page 837 - Inquiry into the conssquences of neglecting to give the Prayer-Book with the Bible; together with A Sermon, on the Inadequacy of the Bible to be an exclusive Rule of Faith, inscribed to the same.
Page 760 - The History of the Politics of Great Britain and France, from the time of the conference at Pilnitz, to the declaration of war against Great Britain : with the attempts made by the British government to restore peace.
Page 805 - A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, on Thursday, June 13th, 1811, being the time of the yearly meeting of the children educated in the Charity schools in and about the Cities of London and Westminster.
Page 617 - The King and Prince lay at Trinity College where the plays were represented, and the hall so well ordered for room that above 2000 persons were conveniently placed.

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