Lives, Characters, and a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Hon. Robert BoyleA. Watson, 1824 - 312 sidor |
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... spirit of non - conformity , which pre- dominated in the mind , and gave law to the con- duct , of its otherwise excellent , and justly cele brated author . Retention was at length preferred ; not only be- cause PREFACE ...
... spirit of non - conformity , which pre- dominated in the mind , and gave law to the con- duct , of its otherwise excellent , and justly cele brated author . Retention was at length preferred ; not only be- cause PREFACE ...
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... gave his daughters , from whom a numerous posterity has sprung . His second son was Robert Hale , a Barrister of Lincoln's - Inn ; he married Joan , the daugh- ter of Matthew Poyntz , of Alderly , Esquire , who was descended from that ...
... gave his daughters , from whom a numerous posterity has sprung . His second son was Robert Hale , a Barrister of Lincoln's - Inn ; he married Joan , the daugh- ter of Matthew Poyntz , of Alderly , Esquire , who was descended from that ...
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Gilbert Burnet. and gave him his own name at his baptism . His father was a man of that strictness of con- science , that he gave over the practice of the law , because he could not understand the rea- son of giving colour in pleadings ...
Gilbert Burnet. and gave him his own name at his baptism . His father was a man of that strictness of con- science , that he gave over the practice of the law , because he could not understand the rea- son of giving colour in pleadings ...
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... gave some hopes of better things . One of his masters told him he could teach him no more , for he was now better at his own trade than himself was . This Mr. Hale looked on as flattery ; so to make the master discover himself , he ...
... gave some hopes of better things . One of his masters told him he could teach him no more , for he was now better at his own trade than himself was . This Mr. Hale looked on as flattery ; so to make the master discover himself , he ...
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... gave no entertainments but to the poor : for he fol- lowed our Saviour's direction ( of feasting none but these ) literally and in eating and drinking he observed not only great plainness and mode ration , but lived so philosophically ...
... gave no entertainments but to the poor : for he fol- lowed our Saviour's direction ( of feasting none but these ) literally and in eating and drinking he observed not only great plainness and mode ration , but lived so philosophically ...
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Sida xiii - But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Sida 86 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Sida 261 - He had the profoundest veneration for the Great God of heaven and earth, that I have ever observed in any person. The very name of God was never mentioned by him without a pause and a visible stop in his discourse...
Sida 231 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Sida 312 - The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Sida 299 - ... a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent from God, both to elevate and sweeten human nature, in which he was a great example, as well as a wise and kind instructor.
Sida 293 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x.
Sida 312 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Sida 240 - ... and without God in the world ; have been an open enemy to Jesus Christ, doing the utmost despite to the Holy Spirit of Grace. And that the greatest testimony of my charity to such is, to warn them, in the name of God, and as they regard the welfare of their immortal souls, no more to deny his being or his providence, or despise his goodness ; no more to make a mock of sin, or contemn the pure and excellent religion of my ever blessed Redeemer, through whose merits alone, I, one of the greatest...
Sida 215 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.