Lives, Characters, and a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Hon. Robert BoyleA. Watson, 1824 - 312 pages |
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... resolved to keep the Church of Eng- land in perfect fitness to ride out the storms which she was destined to encounter . The confidence expressed in this remark is founded on occurrences which we all have winessed . It is obvious , that ...
... resolved to keep the Church of Eng- land in perfect fitness to ride out the storms which she was destined to encounter . The confidence expressed in this remark is founded on occurrences which we all have winessed . It is obvious , that ...
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... the town before I could resolve on desiring to be ' known to him . < ' My ignorance of the law of England made me also unfit to write of a man , a great part of whose · ' character , as to his learning , is to 34 THE PREFACE .
... the town before I could resolve on desiring to be ' known to him . < ' My ignorance of the law of England made me also unfit to write of a man , a great part of whose · ' character , as to his learning , is to 34 THE PREFACE .
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... resolved upon his coming to Lon- don , ( where he knew the opportunities of such sights would be more frequent and inviting , ) never to see a play again , to which he constant- ly adhered . The corruption of a young man's mind , in one ...
... resolved upon his coming to Lon- don , ( where he knew the opportunities of such sights would be more frequent and inviting , ) never to see a play again , to which he constant- ly adhered . The corruption of a young man's mind , in one ...
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... resolved to be a sol- dier and his tutor Sedgwick , going into the Low - countries , chaplain to the renowned Lord Vere , he resolved to go along with him , and to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army ; but a happy stop was put ...
... resolved to be a sol- dier and his tutor Sedgwick , going into the Low - countries , chaplain to the renowned Lord Vere , he resolved to go along with him , and to trail a pike in the prince of Orange's army ; but a happy stop was put ...
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... resolved to re- deem the time he had lost , and followed his studies with a diligence that could scarce be be- lieved , if the signal effects of it did not gain it credit . He studied for many years at the rate of sixteen hours a day ...
... resolved to re- deem the time he had lost , and followed his studies with a diligence that could scarce be be- lieved , if the signal effects of it did not gain it credit . He studied for many years at the rate of sixteen hours a day ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 312 - The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.