The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those Provinces

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Whittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 sider

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Side 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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Side 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Side 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Side 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
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Side 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Side 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Side 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Side 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.

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