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... appears to have been in- flexible in the points which divided so large a body of clergymen from the church , and is said to have refused considerable preferment to induce him to remain in it . He is praised by his biographer for piety ...
... appears to have been in- flexible in the points which divided so large a body of clergymen from the church , and is said to have refused considerable preferment to induce him to remain in it . He is praised by his biographer for piety ...
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... appears to have been employed by them ; and , as he was a very modest , decent , and unpresuming man , he was a sharer in their conversation , when they met after their morning's walk , at a bookseller's shop in Ave - Maria lane ...
... appears to have been employed by them ; and , as he was a very modest , decent , and unpresuming man , he was a sharer in their conversation , when they met after their morning's walk , at a bookseller's shop in Ave - Maria lane ...
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... appears to have carefully divided his time between his public duties and private studies , and died much esteemed and regretted , Jan. 16 , 1747.2 BROCKLESBY ( RICHARD ) , an eminent English physi- cian , the son of Richard Brocklesby ...
... appears to have carefully divided his time between his public duties and private studies , and died much esteemed and regretted , Jan. 16 , 1747.2 BROCKLESBY ( RICHARD ) , an eminent English physi- cian , the son of Richard Brocklesby ...
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... appears to have made a just estimate , and from whose power he expected advantages to the society , which he was himself incapable of conferring . Nor was he disappointed in the issue of this well - timed policy . The king took the ...
... appears to have made a just estimate , and from whose power he expected advantages to the society , which he was himself incapable of conferring . Nor was he disappointed in the issue of this well - timed policy . The king took the ...
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... appears by his di- gressive relation of the contract between Joan , king Ed- ward's sister , and David , afterwards king of Scots . This historian has borrowed pretty freely from Hoveden . His chronicle is printed in the " Decem Script ...
... appears by his di- gressive relation of the contract between Joan , king Ed- ward's sister , and David , afterwards king of Scots . This historian has borrowed pretty freely from Hoveden . His chronicle is printed in the " Decem Script ...
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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,...