 | William Ralph Hall Caine - 1892 - 320 頁
...the fund of life. About this time he came under the influence of Dr. Burnet, who afterwards wrote, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester. A lingering illness terminated in his death in 1680. He was a man of considerable attainments, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 頁
...That he still holds a place in English literature is due to his biographical and historical writings. Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, should not perhaps be termed a biography, since it passes very rapidly over Rochester's career to dwell... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 頁
...That he still holds a place in English literature is due to his biographical and historical writings. Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, should not perhaps be termed a biography, since it passes very rapidly over Rochester's career to dwell... | |
 | Columbia University. Libraries - 1897 - 74 頁
...illustribus scriptarum. Leidae, 1727. Sq. Q. 5 v. pi. Burnet, Gilbert, bp. of Salisbury. 1643-1715. Some passages of the life and death of John, earl of Rochester ; reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1680, with an introductory preface by Lord Ronald Gower.... | |
 | 1897 - 524 頁
...illustribus scriptarum. Ltidae, 1727. Sq. Q. 5 v. pi. Burnet, Gilbert, bp. of Salisbury. 1643-1715. Some passages of the life and death of John, earl of Rochester ; reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1680, with an introductory preface by Lord Ronald Gower.... | |
 | John Edgar Burton - 1902 - 296 頁
...Religion, 1702; Discourse on Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, Dublin, 1714; A second part of same, 1715; Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, 1727; etc. In 2 vols. 8vo and 18mo, calf and half calf. 2656 TRACTS. The Repentance and Happy Death... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1903 - 398 頁
...witness to her power also to convert. Few books have made more impression on their generation than Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, written by his own direction on his ^j^^ death-bed, which traces the slow change of the most dissolute... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 744 頁
...(1679—81-1714), and his posthumous History of My Own Time (1724-34) ; and to add a particular commendation of Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1681), and of the Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682), a couple of excellent essays in the art... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1903 - 402 頁
...witness to her power also to convert. Few books have made more impression on their generation than Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, written by his own direction on his *sx£'l>e%£. death-bed, which traces the slow change of the most... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1904 - 1180 頁
...at the age of thirtytwo. Bishop Burnet wrote an interesting account of his death under the title of Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1681), from which it appears that he sincerely repented his dissolute course. His published works... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
