Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who Died July 26, 1680Munroe and Francis, 1812 - 144 pages |
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... secret notice communicated to it , had a sort of divination . But that gentleman's never appearing was a great snare to him during the rest of his life . Though , when he told me this , he could not but acknowledge , that 36.
... secret notice communicated to it , had a sort of divination . But that gentleman's never appearing was a great snare to him during the rest of his life . Though , when he told me this , he could not but acknowledge , that 36.
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... secret , and saw him in these shapes , could perceive nothing by which he might be discovered . I have now made the description of his former life and principles , as fully as I thought necessary to answer my end in writing ; and yet ...
... secret , and saw him in these shapes , could perceive nothing by which he might be discovered . I have now made the description of his former life and principles , as fully as I thought necessary to answer my end in writing ; and yet ...
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... secret of in- censing and appeasing God as they pleased . In a word , he was neither persuaded , that there was a special providence about hu- man affairs , nor that prayers were of much use , since that was to look on God as a weak ...
... secret of in- censing and appeasing God as they pleased . In a word , he was neither persuaded , that there was a special providence about hu- man affairs , nor that prayers were of much use , since that was to look on God as a weak ...
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... secret joys a good man felt , particularly as he drew near death , and the horrors of ill men , especially at that time ; he was willing to ascribe these to the impressions they had received from their education . But he of- ten ...
... secret joys a good man felt , particularly as he drew near death , and the horrors of ill men , especially at that time ; he was willing to ascribe these to the impressions they had received from their education . But he of- ten ...
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... secrets to mankind . Why was not man made a creature more disposed for re- ligion , and better illuminated ? He could not apprehend how there should be any corruption in the nature of man , or a lapse derived from Adam . God's communica ...
... secrets to mankind . Why was not man made a creature more disposed for re- ligion , and better illuminated ? He could not apprehend how there should be any corruption in the nature of man , or a lapse derived from Adam . God's communica ...
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Page 119 - 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.
Page 42 - To this he answered, a man could not write with life, unless he were heated by revenge : for to make a satire without resentments, upon the cold notions of philosophy, was as if a man would in cold blood, cut men's throats who had never offended him : and he said, the lies in these libels came often in as ornaments that could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the poem.
Page 144 - 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.
Page 95 - The restraining a man from the use of women, except one in the way of marriage, and denying the remedy of divorce, he thought unreasonable impositions on the freedom of mankind...
Page 38 - He remembering his dream, fell into some disorder; and the lady Warre reproving him for his superstition, he said he was confident he was to die before morning; but, he being in perfect health, it was not much minded.
Page 126 - Fellow : soon after I told him, I was glad to find his Style so reformed, and that he had so entirely overcome that ill habit of Swearing; Only that word of calling any damned, which had returned upon him, was not decent. His Answer was: Oh that Language of Fiends, which was so familiar to me, hangs yet about me: Sure none has deserved more to be damned than I have done.
Page 121 - I shall confine my discourse to the dead. He told me, he had overcome all his resentments to all the world, so that he bore ill-will to no person, nor hated any upon personal accounts. He had given a true state of his debts, and had ordered to pay them all, as far as his estate, that was not settled, could go ; and was confident, that if all that was owing to him were paid to his executors, his creditors would be all satisfied. He said, he found his mind now possessed with another sense of things...
Page 40 - ... they would have chosen sometimes to have gone naked, if they had not feared the people; so though some of them found it necessary for human life to talk of morality, yet he confessed they cared not for it...
Page 30 - Sometimes other men's thoughts mixed with his composures, but that flowed rather from the impressions they made on him when he read them, by which they came to return upon him as his own thoughts, than that he servilely copied from any : for few men ever had a bolder flight of fancy, more steadily governed by judgment, than he had.
Page 115 - ... shew a true repentance and amendment of life for the time to come : or else if the Lord pleaseth to put an end to my worldly being now, that he would mercifully accept of my death-bed repentance, and perform that promise that he hath been pleased to make, that at what time soever a sinner doth repent, he would receive him. Put up these prayers, most dear doctor, to almighty God for your most obedient and languishing servant, ROCHESTER.