Memoirs of the lives of Thomas Gibson ... Jonathan Harle ... John Horsley ... William Turner

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Side 76 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Side 78 - Thirde parte, lately gathered, and nowe set oute with the names of the herbes, in Greke, Latin, English, Duche, Frenche, and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries Latin, with the properties, degrees, and naturall places of the same.
Side 57 - England, with a confutation of an errour of some men, that holde, that Rhemnish and other small white wines ought not to be drunken of them that either haue, or are in daunger of the stone, the reniñe, and diuers other diseases, made by William Turner doctor of Physicke.
Side 31 - the History of all the Roman Transactions in Britain, with an account of their legionary and auxiliary forces employed here, and a determination, of the stations per lineam valli ; also a large description of the Roman walls, with maps of the same, laid down from a geometrical survey.
Side 49 - ... boke coteineth the names of the moste parte of herbes, that all auncient authours write of both in Greke, Lattin, Englishe, Duche and Frenche, I haue set to also the names whiche be comonly vsed of the poticaries and comon herbaries. I haue tolde also the degrees of so many herbes as Galene the chiefe Doctour of al phisicians hath written of, and because men should not thynke that I write of it that I never sawe, and that Poticaries shoulde be excuselesse when as the ryghte herbes are required...
Side 58 - Catholic manner, appears not. Sure it is that while he was a young man, he went unsent for, through many parts of the nation, and preached the word of God, not only in towns and villages, but also in cities.
Side 32 - a complete collection of the Roman inscriptions and sculptures, which have hitherto been discovered in Britain, with the letters engraved in their proper shape, and proportionate size, and the reading placed under each ; as also an historical account of them, with explanatory and critical observations.
Side 73 - Turner lived, and the little assistance he could derive from his contemporaries, he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition, and fully to deserve the character of an original writer.
Side 45 - I deuised a lecture in Thistelworth, agaynst two of the opinions of Pelagius : namely against that childer haue no original sin, & that they oughte not to be baptised. But within a few wekes after : one of Pelagius disciples, in the defence of his masters doctrine, wrote against my lecture. with all the cunnyng and learning, that he had. But lest he should glorye and crake amonge his disciples, that I could not aunswer him : and to the intent, that the venemous seede of his soweyng maye be destroyed,...
Side 131 - that beauty and agreeableness in truth, even supposing it to be merely speculative, as always affords, on the discovery of it, real pleasure to a well-turned mind ; and I will add, that it not only pleases but enriches it too.

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