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 sider |
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... native of Cambridge , and M.A. of Emanuel College , a recent foundation , which was strongly embued with puritanism . Having taken orders , he was elected master of the Grammar School at Hull , and in 1624 became lecturer of Trinity ...
... native of Cambridge , and M.A. of Emanuel College , a recent foundation , which was strongly embued with puritanism . Having taken orders , he was elected master of the Grammar School at Hull , and in 1624 became lecturer of Trinity ...
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... native energy of his mind . But error , which youth can never wholly escape , peculiarly besets the nonage of an active intellect . And none are more obnoxious to the attacks of the wicked spirits " that lie like truth , " than the ...
... native energy of his mind . But error , which youth can never wholly escape , peculiarly besets the nonage of an active intellect . And none are more obnoxious to the attacks of the wicked spirits " that lie like truth , " than the ...
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... native of the Emerald Isle . Hence Pope : - " High on a gorgeous seat that far outshone Henley's Gilt - tub - or Flecnoe's Irish throne . " DUNCIAD , BOOK 2d . Flecnoe having laid aside , ( as himself expressed it , ) " the mechanic ...
... native of the Emerald Isle . Hence Pope : - " High on a gorgeous seat that far outshone Henley's Gilt - tub - or Flecnoe's Irish throne . " DUNCIAD , BOOK 2d . Flecnoe having laid aside , ( as himself expressed it , ) " the mechanic ...
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... native town in 1660- in that parliament which was destined to see the restoration of royalty . Though it is probable that he corresponded regularly with his constitu- ents from his first election , whatever he may have written previous ...
... native town in 1660- in that parliament which was destined to see the restoration of royalty . Though it is probable that he corresponded regularly with his constitu- ents from his first election , whatever he may have written previous ...
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... native Lilliputian ; and at this time he can neither write nor speak two sentences without a mixture of old Blefuscudian . These qualifications , joined to an undaunted forward spirit , and a few good friends , prevailed with the ...
... native Lilliputian ; and at this time he can neither write nor speak two sentences without a mixture of old Blefuscudian . These qualifications , joined to an undaunted forward spirit , and a few good friends , prevailed with the ...
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Side 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.