Thomas Ellwood, the Friend of MiltonHeadley brothers, 1910 - 39 Seiten |
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144 East Twentieth 66 Ellwood Amersham Aylesbury Jail Beaconsfield BECOMES A QUAKER Bishopsgate St BOOK & TRACT Bridewell Chalfont St CHAPTER Chilterns Christian committed Conventicle Act death early Friends East Twentieth Street EDITIONS OF ELLWOOD'S Edward Burrough Ellwood called Ellwood continued Ellwood received Ellwood took Ellwood's autobiography Ellwood's father Ellwood's return home endeavoured First-day Friend of Milton Friends Ancient Friends were arrested George Fox George Fox's Journal George Whitehead Guli Springett HEADLEY BROTHERS High Wycombe historical Hunger Hill imprisonment Isaac and Mary Isaac Penington Jewin Street John Milton Joseph Wyeth Justice Lady Springett lodged London Lord Mark Pattison marriage Mary Ellis Mary Penington MILTON'S COTTAGE mind Newgate Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Penington and Ellwood persecution poem Price prisoners published returned to Crowell says Ellwood SOCIETY OF FRIENDS testi thee Thomas Ellwood Thomas Loe thou TRACT ASSOCIATION TRACT COMMITTEE truth W. H. Summers wife WILLIAM PENN writing
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Seite 27 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it and what I thought of it, which I modestly but freely told him, and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of " Paradise Lost," but what hast thou to say of
Seite 28 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Seite 28 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then brake off that discourse and fell upon another subject.
Seite 27 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his; which being brought, he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure; and when I had so done to return it to him, with my judgment thereupon.
Seite 7 - This latter meeting was like the clinching of a nail, confirming and fastening in my mind those good principles which had sunk into me at the former. My understanding began to open, and I felt some stirrings in my breast, tending to the work of a new creation in me.
Seite 15 - I both saw my loss and lamented it ; and applied myself with the utmost diligence, at all leisure times, to recover it ; so false I found that charge to be which in those times was cast as a reproach upon the Quakers, that they despised and decried all human learning, because they denied it to be essentially necessary to a gospel ministry, which was one of the controversies of those times.
Seite 36 - A man of a comely aspect, of a free and generous disposition, of a courteous and affable temper, and pleasant conversation ; a gentleman born and bred ; a scholar, a true Christian, an eminent author, a good neighbour, and kind friend ; whose loss is much lamented, and will be much missed at home and abroad.
Seite 16 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Seite 6 - Edward Burrough ; next to whom (as it were under him) it was my lot to sit on a stool by the side of a long table on which he sat, and I drank in his words with desire, for they not only answered my understanding, but warmed my heart with a certain heat, which I had not, till then, felt from the ministry of any man.
Seite 16 - This I had formerly complained of to my especial friend Isaac Penington, but now more earnestly ; which put him upon considering, and contriving a means for my assistance. He had an intimate acquaintance with Dr. Paget, a physician of note in London, and he with John Milton, a gentleman of great note for learning throughout the learned world, for the accurate pieces he had written on various subjects and occasions.