Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... posterity reaps the advantage of calamities , which no good mind would wish to see super- induced , even upon the most distant and bar- barous portion of the globe . HALL . JOSEPH HALL , an eminent and learned di- ( 6 )
... posterity reaps the advantage of calamities , which no good mind would wish to see super- induced , even upon the most distant and bar- barous portion of the globe . HALL . JOSEPH HALL , an eminent and learned di- ( 6 )
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... eminent and learned di- vine , and successively bishop of Exeter and Norwich , was born July 1 , 1574 , at Ashby de la Zouch , in Leicestershire . Having received the rudiments of his education at his native place , he entered , at the ...
... eminent and learned di- vine , and successively bishop of Exeter and Norwich , was born July 1 , 1574 , at Ashby de la Zouch , in Leicestershire . Having received the rudiments of his education at his native place , he entered , at the ...
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... eminent statesman and writer , was descended of an ancient family , and born at Montgomery Castle , in Wales , in 1581. He was admitted gentleman commoner of Uni- versity College , Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college ...
... eminent statesman and writer , was descended of an ancient family , and born at Montgomery Castle , in Wales , in 1581. He was admitted gentleman commoner of Uni- versity College , Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college ...
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... eminent as it alone concludes and sums up the rest . Insomuch as there is no sa- crament which is not finally resolved into it ; good life , charity , faith in , and love of God , being such necessary and essential parts of religion ...
... eminent as it alone concludes and sums up the rest . Insomuch as there is no sa- crament which is not finally resolved into it ; good life , charity , faith in , and love of God , being such necessary and essential parts of religion ...
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... eminent by dangers . And so God dresses us for Heaven , On the Practice of Patience . At the first address and presence of sickness , stand still and arrest thy spirit , that it may without amazement or affright consider that this was ...
... eminent by dangers . And so God dresses us for Heaven , On the Practice of Patience . At the first address and presence of sickness , stand still and arrest thy spirit , that it may without amazement or affright consider that this was ...
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