The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 sider |
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Side 49
... soon wrought himself dexterously into his patron's favour by short graces and short sermons , and a mimical way of drolling upon the Puritans ; he gained a great authority likewise among the domestics : they listened to him as an oracle ...
... soon wrought himself dexterously into his patron's favour by short graces and short sermons , and a mimical way of drolling upon the Puritans ; he gained a great authority likewise among the domestics : they listened to him as an oracle ...
Side 51
... soon have felt where it stuck . For men may spare their pains when nature is at work , and the world will not go the faster for our driving . Even as his present Majesty's happy restoration did itself , so all things else happen in ...
... soon have felt where it stuck . For men may spare their pains when nature is at work , and the world will not go the faster for our driving . Even as his present Majesty's happy restoration did itself , so all things else happen in ...
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... soon afterwards was appointed one of the Bishop of Worcester's chaplains . The Honourable ROBERT BOYLE died on the 30th of December , 1691 . Wishing that at his death , he might promote the same cause to which he had devoted his life ...
... soon afterwards was appointed one of the Bishop of Worcester's chaplains . The Honourable ROBERT BOYLE died on the 30th of December , 1691 . Wishing that at his death , he might promote the same cause to which he had devoted his life ...
Side 72
... soon after he had taken priest's orders , he obtained a Prebend in the cathedral of Worcester ; and in the course of the following year , he succeeded Henry de Justel as keeper of the King's Library . Such was the auspicious commence ...
... soon after he had taken priest's orders , he obtained a Prebend in the cathedral of Worcester ; and in the course of the following year , he succeeded Henry de Justel as keeper of the King's Library . Such was the auspicious commence ...
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... soon as he could scrape together £ 600 , to purchase a life annuity . For this he toiled , and dedicated , and besought the interest of Bentley ; and , by his advice , offered his Aristophanes to Montague , Lord Halifax , who had ...
... soon as he could scrape together £ 600 , to purchase a life annuity . For this he toiled , and dedicated , and besought the interest of Bentley ; and , by his advice , offered his Aristophanes to Montague , Lord Halifax , who had ...
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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.
Side 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
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...
Side 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
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.