Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert SandersonWilson, Spence and Mawman, 1796 - 518 Seiten |
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... must obviously tend to invigorate our efforts to excel in moral worth , the virtuous characters , which are so happily delineated in the following pages , cannot fail , if confidered with serious attention , of producing the most ...
... must obviously tend to invigorate our efforts to excel in moral worth , the virtuous characters , which are so happily delineated in the following pages , cannot fail , if confidered with serious attention , of producing the most ...
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... must therefore be allowed to have poffeffed a peculiar excellency of difpofition , who conciliated to himself an habitual intimacy with Ufher the Apoftolical Primate of Ireland , with Archbishop Sheldon , with Morton , Bishop of Durham ...
... must therefore be allowed to have poffeffed a peculiar excellency of difpofition , who conciliated to himself an habitual intimacy with Ufher the Apoftolical Primate of Ireland , with Archbishop Sheldon , with Morton , Bishop of Durham ...
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... must however be pronounced generally devoid of harmony of numbers , or beauty of verfifi- cation . Involved in the language of metaphyfical obfcurity " , they cannot be read but with faftidioufnefs : They abound in false thoughts ...
... must however be pronounced generally devoid of harmony of numbers , or beauty of verfifi- cation . Involved in the language of metaphyfical obfcurity " , they cannot be read but with faftidioufnefs : They abound in false thoughts ...
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... must expect a retribution from him , who gave the firft inclination . " 2. And by this circle , Sir , I have fet you in my place , and instead of " making you a payment , I have made you a debtor ; but ' tis to Almighty " God , to whom ...
... must expect a retribution from him , who gave the firft inclination . " 2. And by this circle , Sir , I have fet you in my place , and instead of " making you a payment , I have made you a debtor ; but ' tis to Almighty " God , to whom ...
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... must not pass in filence , being an argument of " Dr. Sanderson's piety , great ability , and judgment , as a cafuift . Dif- " courfing The writer principally alluded to in this part of the Letter , was the excellent Dr. Jeremy Taylor ...
... must not pass in filence , being an argument of " Dr. Sanderson's piety , great ability , and judgment , as a cafuift . Dif- " courfing The writer principally alluded to in this part of the Letter , was the excellent Dr. Jeremy Taylor ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 255 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Seite 318 - Ah ! my dear God, though I am clean forgot, Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.
Seite 314 - Bohemia. In this place of orator our George Herbert continued eight years, and managed it with as becoming and grave a gaiety as any had ever before or since his time. For he had acquired great learning, and was blest with a high fancy, a civil and sharp wit, and with a natural elegance both in his behaviour, his tongue, and his pen.
Seite 252 - Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Seite 320 - ... sacred name of priest contemptible, yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities, to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men, and by following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus.
Seite 351 - God, so far to trust thy promise, as to return them back to thee ; and by thy grace I will do so, in distributing them to any of thy poor members that are in distress, or do but bear the image of Jesus, my Master. Sir...
Seite 68 - a book, in which, by declaring his own spiritual conflicts, he hath comforted and raised many a dejected and discomposed soul, and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ; a book, by the frequent reading whereof, and the assistance of that spirit that seemed to inspire the author, the reader may attain habits of peace and piety, and...
Seite 349 - Clergy especially which preach temperance, would avoid surfeiting and take all occasions to express a visible humility and charity in their lives; for this would force a love and an imitation, and an unfeigned reverence from all that knew them to be such." (And for proof of this, we need no other testimony than the life and death of Dr Lake, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.) "This," said Mr Herbert, "would be a cure for the wickedness and growing Atheism of our age.
Seite 73 - ORIENS. And now, having brought him through the many labyrinths and perplexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, my desire is, he may rest till I have told my reader, that I have seen many pictures of him, in several habits, and at several ages, and in several postures. And I now mention this, because I have seen one picture of him, drawn by a curious...
Seite 320 - And though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued, and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him, that hath done so much for me, as to make me a Christian.