Memoirs of the Late Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich, Volume 1

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A.J. Valpy, 1837
 

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Página 314 - Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head, As the mind opens, and its functions spread, Imagination plies her dang'rous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part.
Página 5 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne; but it is fit you should know also who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard," continued he, " of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much.
Página 5 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since I have...
Página 6 - This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy ; for at eighty-five he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty, a disposition to be pleased and a power to please others beyond whatever I knew ; added to which, a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling.
Página 5 - I have closed my accounts, and shut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again; but you have kindled a desire in me of opening them once more before I die; which I now do; so go home and dine with me.
Página 274 - I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,, WELLINGTON.
Página 234 - A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith ; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle, But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades. Sink in the trial.
Página 4 - George was advanced to the dignity of a peer of Great Britain, by the style and title of Baron...
Página 69 - More enlightened and just ideas of toleration have of late prevailed, and have everywhere taken place of that over-heated religious zeal, which is alike the bane of public peace and of private comfort. Christians, of all denominations, alike appear at last to be convinced, that they are not required by their great Master, or by the maxims of sound policy, to support any particular mode of religious worship by means directly in opposition to the end and design of all religion. It is but justice to...
Página 240 - should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom." How far Dean Wood may accede to the truth of this remark, as applicable to me, I dare not venture peremptorily to decide: but I am inclined to believe, from the intercourse which has passed between us upon former occasions, he will not be indisposed to pay some deference to the opinion of a brother clergyman who is now in the 82nd year of his age; and I have no hesitation in stating most unequivocally what that opinion is.

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