| Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1793 - 528 pages
...more pious, peaceable, primitive temper : fo that this excellent perfon feems to be only like himfelf and our venerable Richard Hooker ; and only fit to...all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little ifland. There might be many more and juft occafions taken to... | |
| Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
...more pious, peaceable, primitive, temper; fo that this excellent perfon feems to be only like himfelf, and our venerable Richard Hooker; and only fit to make the learned of all nations happy then of Merton College in Oxford, tutor to Prince Charles, afterward Charles I. In 1643, lie was elected... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 pages
...more pious, peaceable, primitive temper : fo that this excellent perfon feems to be only like himfelf, and our venerable Richard Hooker; and only fit to...nations happy, in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little iflancl. There might be many more and juft occafions taken to... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1805 - 426 pages
...more pious, peaceable, primitive temper : fo that this excellent perfon feems to be only like himfelf, and our venerable Richard Hooker ; and only fit to...nations happy, in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little ifland. There might be many more and juft occafions taken to... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...biographer of Donne, &c. sums his character by saying that since Mr. Richard Hooker died, non* have lis'ed " whom God hath blest with more innocent wisdom, more...learning, or a more pious, peaceable primitive temper." Besides the work of which I am about to make mention, Bishop Earle wrote an Elegy upon Mr. Francis... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1806 - 416 pages
...biographer of Donne, &c. sums his character by saying that since Mr. Richard Hooker died, none hai'e lived " whom God hath blest with more innocent wisdom,...learning, or a more pious, peaceable primitive temper." Besides the work of which I am about to make mention, Bishop Earle wrote an Elegy upon Mr. Francis... | |
| Richard Hooker - 1807 - 524 pages
...more pious, peaceable, primitive temper: fo that this excellent perfon feems to be only like himfelf and our venerable Richard Hooker ; and only fit to...make the learned of all nations happy in knowing what * In his Annals of Eliz. 1599. hath been too long confined to the language of our little ifland. There... | |
| Art - 1809 - 760 pages
...those that now live, and yet know him not,) that since Mr. Hooker dyed, none have lived whom God bath blest with more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning,...person seems to be only like himself, and our venerable fiichard Hooker, and only fit to make - the learned of all nations happy, in knowing what hath been... | |
| Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...that now live and yet know him not) that since Mr. Hooker died, none hath lived whom God hath hlessed with more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning,...all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confined to the language of our little island. * Ju his Aunals, 15.09. There There might be many more... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...19 his memory. Walton sums up his character by saying that since the death of the celebrated Hooker, none have lived " whom God hath blest with more innocent...learning, or a more pious, peaceable, primitive temper." When the nonconformist clergy stepped forward to administer to the relief of the dying io the great... | |
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