Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries, Band 4T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796 |
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... fuffer hereafter for what envious , " malicious , and ungrateful perfons do now . " The whole letter is preferved in Mr. Edwards's ineftimable Work . " The common proverb , " fays Thoret , in his life of this illuftrious Navigator ...
... fuffer hereafter for what envious , " malicious , and ungrateful perfons do now . " The whole letter is preferved in Mr. Edwards's ineftimable Work . " The common proverb , " fays Thoret , in his life of this illuftrious Navigator ...
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... fuffer it , but caufing their mouths to be gagged , that their cries might not be heard , he firred up the fire with his own as hands , and roafted them deliberately till they all ex- pired . I faw it myself . After reading accounts ...
... fuffer it , but caufing their mouths to be gagged , that their cries might not be heard , he firred up the fire with his own as hands , and roafted them deliberately till they all ex- pired . I faw it myself . After reading accounts ...
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... of your holy ❝ obedience , we admonish , exhort , and with fin- " cere charity in the Lord , require you , and any of you ( if you have any defire to do any thing ❝ to " to oblige us ) that you would fuffer the DISTINGUISHED PERSONS . 75.
... of your holy ❝ obedience , we admonish , exhort , and with fin- " cere charity in the Lord , require you , and any of you ( if you have any defire to do any thing ❝ to " to oblige us ) that you would fuffer the DISTINGUISHED PERSONS . 75.
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... fuffer the faid John " to have access to your library , and permit him 66 to fend us from thence the faid work of Livy , as well as any other he fhall judge proper ; all " which fhall be fafely returned to you , with a confiderable ...
... fuffer the faid John " to have access to your library , and permit him 66 to fend us from thence the faid work of Livy , as well as any other he fhall judge proper ; all " which fhall be fafely returned to you , with a confiderable ...
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... fuffer the Minifters of the Churches " to decay , or learning ( which is so great a jewel ) to be minished , or the poor and miserable " to be unrelieved , you might well fay , that I , " being put in fuch a fpecial truft as I am in ...
... fuffer the Minifters of the Churches " to decay , or learning ( which is so great a jewel ) to be minished , or the poor and miserable " to be unrelieved , you might well fay , that I , " being put in fuch a fpecial truft as I am in ...
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Seite 298 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Seite 96 - Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Seite 234 - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth; for it will cause contempt in others, and loathing in thee. Neither make choice of a dwarf, or a fool; for, by the one...
Seite 239 - ... such like popular compliments. The first prepares thy way to advancement: the second makes thee known for a man well bred : the third gains a good report; which, once got, is easily kept.
Seite 233 - ... life ; I mean, the true knowledge and worship of thy Creator and Redeemer : without which all other things are vain and miserable. So that thy youth being guided by so sufficient a teacher, I make no doubt but he will furnish thy life with divine and moral documents.
Seite 234 - I will not confound thy memory, I have reduced them into Ten Precepts; and next unto Moses' tables, if thou imprint them in thy mind, thou shalt reap the benefit and I the content.
Seite 313 - God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great Victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this War began. It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being...
Seite 276 - Mr. Tho. Hobbes (Malmesburiensis) was beloved by his Lop, who was wont to have him walke with him in his delicate groves, when he did meditate ; and when a notion darted into his mind, Mr. Hobbes was presently to write it...
Seite 389 - Shall spread thy conquests over half the kind ; " To him, each rival shall submit, " Make but his riches equal to his wit.
Seite 236 - BRING thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Praise them openly, reprehend them secretly. Give them good countenance and convenient maintenance according to thy ability, otherwise thy life will seem their bondage, and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death they will thank death for it, and not thee.