The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author, Volume 12Luke Hansard & Sons, 1811 - Theology |
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Page 81
... Lordship's death is a further objection to the manner in which his writings are treated . Cuperem ipse Parens spectator adesset ! Had these Essays been published during his life , and had the Author of the View deferred his remarks upon ...
... Lordship's death is a further objection to the manner in which his writings are treated . Cuperem ipse Parens spectator adesset ! Had these Essays been published during his life , and had the Author of the View deferred his remarks upon ...
Page 85
... Lordship's method with perfect appro- bation , as that which right reason prescribes to all who propose the detection of error and imposture . His Lord- ship's point , as we said , was to shew , that the Clergy had corrupted the purity ...
... Lordship's method with perfect appro- bation , as that which right reason prescribes to all who propose the detection of error and imposture . His Lord- ship's point , as we said , was to shew , that the Clergy had corrupted the purity ...
Page 86
... Lordship had been held up to the People * as an ALL - ACCOMPLISHED personage , full and complete in every endowment ... Lordship's religious principles as his Essays contain , and the View collects together , be ready to ask , " Could so ...
... Lordship had been held up to the People * as an ALL - ACCOMPLISHED personage , full and complete in every endowment ... Lordship's religious principles as his Essays contain , and the View collects together , be ready to ask , " Could so ...
Page 87
... Lordship puts himself , and in which he had been placed by his poetical Friend , was a false one ; that his moral virtues were the counterpart of his religious principles ; And public virtue ( according to his favourite Cicero ) ...
... Lordship puts himself , and in which he had been placed by his poetical Friend , was a false one ; that his moral virtues were the counterpart of his religious principles ; And public virtue ( according to his favourite Cicero ) ...
Page 94
... Lordship honoured them with a place in his Essays . What then was that man to aim at , who had made it his business ... Lordship's principles were as foolish as they were wicked ; and that the arguments used in sup- port of them were as ...
... Lordship honoured them with a place in his Essays . What then was that man to aim at , who had made it his business ... Lordship's principles were as foolish as they were wicked ; and that the arguments used in sup- port of them were as ...
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Page 36 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 35 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 36 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 35 - I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 52 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 160 - That Wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as Man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong?
Page 263 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 51 - In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them ; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them ; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 114 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 51 - BEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.