Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. W. Wood, F.L.S., and Minister of the Protestant Dissenting Chapel at Mill-Hill, in Leeds: To which are Subjoined, an Address, Delivered at His Interment, on Tuesday, April 5; and a Sermon, on Occasion of His Death, Preached on Sunday, April 10, 1808J. Johnson, 1809 - 197 pages |
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... known ; so ingenious and important were the opinions he had formed upon subjects con- nected with general science , as well as with his own profession , that the exertions of friend- ship to offer some public tribute to his memory ...
... known ; so ingenious and important were the opinions he had formed upon subjects con- nected with general science , as well as with his own profession , that the exertions of friend- ship to offer some public tribute to his memory ...
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... known than , that he very early discovered con- siderable talents , and that he passed , with great credit , through the ordinary course of school education , under the late Dr. Stephen Adding- ton , at Market Harborough . At the age of ...
... known than , that he very early discovered con- siderable talents , and that he passed , with great credit , through the ordinary course of school education , under the late Dr. Stephen Adding- ton , at Market Harborough . At the age of ...
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... known translator of the book of Job , and to succeed in that capacity , the Rev. R. Lewin , then lately invited to Liverpool . In this situation he had not been long placed , when he received an unanimous invitation from the ...
... known translator of the book of Job , and to succeed in that capacity , the Rev. R. Lewin , then lately invited to Liverpool . In this situation he had not been long placed , when he received an unanimous invitation from the ...
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... known past event , or certainly to be deduced from it . They form however all together an aggregate evidence , which when impartially considered must impel conviction . V rd The miracles recorded in the Old Testa- ment were next ...
... known past event , or certainly to be deduced from it . They form however all together an aggregate evidence , which when impartially considered must impel conviction . V rd The miracles recorded in the Old Testa- ment were next ...
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... known as a Theolo- gian . No one however could enjoy the benefit of his friendship , or even of his occasional socie- ty , without discovering that his merit as such was uncommonly great . Dr. Priestley knew and esteemed him highly in ...
... known as a Theolo- gian . No one however could enjoy the benefit of his friendship , or even of his occasional socie- ty , without discovering that his merit as such was uncommonly great . Dr. Priestley knew and esteemed him highly in ...
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Page 157 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Page 8 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 2 - There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Page 123 - 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 196 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 171 - For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Page 93 - who maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth ; who breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder.
Page 131 - ... a draught of which I have read ; and of the resolutions which are to be proposed at the public meeting, which also I have seen. It is my firm conviction, that if the measures which you are now pursuing, had been taken in the time of the late ministry, and before the death of the ever to-be-lamented Mr.
Page 115 - Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Page 130 - Gentlemen, in the present state of my health, I cannot, with prudence, expose myself to the open air in the cloth-hall yard. But I should feel myself wanting in my duty to you, to my countrymen, and to mankind, if I did...