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... Lond . 1613 , 12mo . 2. " The Christian's Warfare , " ibid . 1613 , 12mo . 3. " Three questions on the Lord's Day , & c . " Oxon . 1621 , 4to . 4. " Tractatus de Sabbato , in quo doctrina ecclesiæ primitive declaratur ac defenditur ...
... Lond . 1613 , 12mo . 2. " The Christian's Warfare , " ibid . 1613 , 12mo . 3. " Three questions on the Lord's Day , & c . " Oxon . 1621 , 4to . 4. " Tractatus de Sabbato , in quo doctrina ecclesiæ primitive declaratur ac defenditur ...
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... Lond . 1687 , 8vo.1 BROMPTON ( JOHN ) was a Cistercian monk , and abbot of Jorevall , or Jerevall , in Richmondshire . The " Chroni- con " that goes under his name begins at the year 588 , when Augustin the monk came into England , and ...
... Lond . 1687 , 8vo.1 BROMPTON ( JOHN ) was a Cistercian monk , and abbot of Jorevall , or Jerevall , in Richmondshire . The " Chroni- con " that goes under his name begins at the year 588 , when Augustin the monk came into England , and ...
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... Lond . 1687 , 8vo , at the end of Colomesius ' edition of St. Clement's epistles ; and he translated part of Camden's annals of queen Eliza- beth , under the title , " Tomus alter et idem ; or the History of the life and reign of that ...
... Lond . 1687 , 8vo , at the end of Colomesius ' edition of St. Clement's epistles ; and he translated part of Camden's annals of queen Eliza- beth , under the title , " Tomus alter et idem ; or the History of the life and reign of that ...
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... Lond . 1748 , 8vo , which procured him the honour of being chosen a fellow of the royal society . This work , which has long been out of oprint , was praised by Chaptal and bishop Watson for the profound knowledge of the sub- ject ...
... Lond . 1748 , 8vo , which procured him the honour of being chosen a fellow of the royal society . This work , which has long been out of oprint , was praised by Chaptal and bishop Watson for the profound knowledge of the sub- ject ...
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... Lond . 1620 , 8vo , a work containing a fund of good sense and shrewd remark . In sir John Beaumont's poems are some lines on his death , highly expressive of an excellent character . 1 BRYE ( THEODORE DE ) , an eminent engraver , was ...
... Lond . 1620 , 8vo , a work containing a fund of good sense and shrewd remark . In sir John Beaumont's poems are some lines on his death , highly expressive of an excellent character . 1 BRYE ( THEODORE DE ) , an eminent engraver , was ...
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Página 340 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far as any other from any endeavour to give it effect.
Página 334 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 146 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy: he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
Página 205 - Observations and Inquiries relating to various parts of Ancient History : containing Dissertations on the wind Euroclydon, and on the Island Melite, together with an account of Egypt in its most early state, and of the Shepherd Kings...
Página 384 - Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang.
Página 465 - When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employments...
Página 334 - I venture to say, it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them who had never spoken to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
Página 145 - Christian Morals: by Sir Thomas Brown, of Norwich, MD, and Author of Religio Medici. Published from the original and correct Manuscript of the Author ; by John Jeffery, DD, Arch-Deacon of Norwich.
Página 139 - I am not misinformed, will tell that with pleasure to all succeeding times. " He has been informed, that your majesty's piety is as genuine and eminent as your excellent qualities are great and conspicuous. This can, indeed, be truly known to the great searcher of hearts only; he alone who can look into them, can discern if they are sincere, and the main intention corresponds with the appearance ; and your majesty cannot take it amiss if such an author hints that his secret approbation is of infinitely...
Página 139 - ... He was once a man ; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing. None, no not the least remembrance of its very ruins, remains, not the shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense that, so much as one single one, perfect or imperfect,...