General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 第 10 卷G. G. and J. Robinson, 1815 |
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... entered of Christ- church college , Oxford ; where having taken his degrees in arts , he made choice of the eccle- siastical profession , and entered into holy orders , to the disappointment of his father , who had purchased a share for ...
... entered of Christ- church college , Oxford ; where having taken his degrees in arts , he made choice of the eccle- siastical profession , and entered into holy orders , to the disappointment of his father , who had purchased a share for ...
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... entered into it with the view of improving a favourable opportunity of withdrawing the church of France from the of the Pope ; that he never afforded the power smallest reason to hope that the church of Eng- land would give up any one ...
... entered into it with the view of improving a favourable opportunity of withdrawing the church of France from the of the Pope ; that he never afforded the power smallest reason to hope that the church of Eng- land would give up any one ...
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... entered that body considered as a particular sect , though thenceforth many of its members were his most valued friends , with whom he cordially con- curred in the cause of free enquiry , and in attachment to civil and religious liberty ...
... entered that body considered as a particular sect , though thenceforth many of its members were his most valued friends , with whom he cordially con- curred in the cause of free enquiry , and in attachment to civil and religious liberty ...
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... entered the dangerous path of poli- tics . He had long upon principle been an enemy to war , thinking it absolutely incompa- tible , unless as a measure of direct defence , with Christian morality , and especially detesting it when ...
... entered the dangerous path of poli- tics . He had long upon principle been an enemy to war , thinking it absolutely incompa- tible , unless as a measure of direct defence , with Christian morality , and especially detesting it when ...
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... entered into orders , and in the next year took his degree as doctor of theology . In 1755 he was invited to fill the chair in the new theological professorship founded by Dr. Kalsenius Bishop of Vesteräs , the object of which was to ...
... entered into orders , and in the next year took his degree as doctor of theology . In 1755 he was invited to fill the chair in the new theological professorship founded by Dr. Kalsenius Bishop of Vesteräs , the object of which was to ...
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第 64 頁 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
第 33 頁 - His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman emperor's determination, " oderint dum metuant ; " he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.
第 64 頁 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
第 77 頁 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind...
第 31 頁 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
第 148 頁 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
第 148 頁 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
第 98 頁 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
第 265 頁 - BRYANT, JACOB. A new system ; or, An analysis of ancient mythology: wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable ; and to reduce the truth to its original purity.
第 65 頁 - Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough...