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 Seiten |
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... effect for good or ill much less potent , but it is the same as far as it goes . It is like the knowledge of the world acquired by keeping bad company . Now the study of Biography has at least this advantage , that it enables the ...
... effect for good or ill much less potent , but it is the same as far as it goes . It is like the knowledge of the world acquired by keeping bad company . Now the study of Biography has at least this advantage , that it enables the ...
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... effect was lost by 183 against 157. This declaration was intended to satisfy the Presbyterians ; and would , in fact , had it been carried into effect , have grafted the Presbyterian system on Episcopacy , and redu- ced the Hierarchal ...
... effect was lost by 183 against 157. This declaration was intended to satisfy the Presbyterians ; and would , in fact , had it been carried into effect , have grafted the Presbyterian system on Episcopacy , and redu- ced the Hierarchal ...
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... effect on St. Bartholomew's day , whereby 2000 ministers , unexpectedly conscientious , were ejected in one day . Were it not that the whole of Marvell's bold and consistent conduct forbids the supposition , it might be conjectured that ...
... effect on St. Bartholomew's day , whereby 2000 ministers , unexpectedly conscientious , were ejected in one day . Were it not that the whole of Marvell's bold and consistent conduct forbids the supposition , it might be conjectured that ...
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... effects may appear from the circumstance , that the poll - tax , heavy as it was , was not expected to raise above £ 540,000 . The fire must have ruined thousands ; the Dutch war was doubtless in- jurious to trade ; the prodigality of ...
... effects may appear from the circumstance , that the poll - tax , heavy as it was , was not expected to raise above £ 540,000 . The fire must have ruined thousands ; the Dutch war was doubtless in- jurious to trade ; the prodigality of ...
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... effect is sadly marred by what follows : - Like a glad lover the fierce flames he meets , And tries his first embraces in their sheets ; His shape exact , which the bright flames infold , Like the sun's statue stands , of burnish'd gold ...
... effect is sadly marred by what follows : - Like a glad lover the fierce flames he meets , And tries his first embraces in their sheets ; His shape exact , which the bright flames infold , Like the sun's statue stands , of burnish'd gold ...
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Seite 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.