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... society of persons of rank , could not have obtained and preserved the confidence of successive statesmen if he had not been quite competent to the practical details of office . But it cannot well be doubted that he was unfit , though ...
... society of persons of rank , could not have obtained and preserved the confidence of successive statesmen if he had not been quite competent to the practical details of office . But it cannot well be doubted that he was unfit , though ...
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... society in which all the laws , institutions , and measures of a Christian country should be based on purely Christian principles . With the same view , he accepted a place in the directory of the London university , which he zea ...
... society in which all the laws , institutions , and measures of a Christian country should be based on purely Christian principles . With the same view , he accepted a place in the directory of the London university , which he zea ...
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... Society ; soon afterwards created a bart . , a K.B. , and a member of the privy council . He was a great favourite with George III . , who was fond of botany and agriculture . His wealth and position in society enabled him to become the ...
... Society ; soon afterwards created a bart . , a K.B. , and a member of the privy council . He was a great favourite with George III . , who was fond of botany and agriculture . His wealth and position in society enabled him to become the ...
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... Society after they were incorporated by charter ; and almost immediately after he was appointed first professor of a mathematical lectureship founded by Dr. Lucas , at Cambridge . This office he held for six years , and then resigned it ...
... Society after they were incorporated by charter ; and almost immediately after he was appointed first professor of a mathematical lectureship founded by Dr. Lucas , at Cambridge . This office he held for six years , and then resigned it ...
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... society of many distinguished men , especially of Reid , the metaphysician , from whom he acquired the principles afterwards illus- trated in his ' Essay on Truth . ' In 1761 , being then in his twenty - sixth year , Beattie made his ...
... society of many distinguished men , especially of Reid , the metaphysician , from whom he acquired the principles afterwards illus- trated in his ' Essay on Truth . ' In 1761 , being then in his twenty - sixth year , Beattie made his ...
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Seite 129 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens (for it was like nothing on earth) which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon, also, I resolved to print my book.
Seite 66 - That this man, wise and virtuous as he was, passed always unentangled through the snares of life, it would be prejudice and temerity to affirm ; but it may be said that at least he preserved the source of action unpolluted, that his principles were never shaken, that his distinctions of right and wrong were never confounded, and that his faults had nothing of malignity or design, but proceeded from some unexpected pressure, or casual temptation.
Seite 287 - Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Seite 72 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Seite 130 - ... sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book. This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came.
Seite 129 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Seite 141 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Seite 10 - Oriel, in which it was predicted that, if Mr. Arnold were elected to the head-mastership of Rugby, he would change the face of education all through the public schools of England.
Seite 328 - The First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests, made and admitted into Benefices by the Prelates, in whose hands the Ordination of Ministers and Government of the Church hath been...
Seite 71 - I have written or signed with mine own hand since my degradation, wherein I have written many things untrue. And forasmuch as my hand offended in writing contrary to my heart, therefore my hand shall first be punished. For if I may come to the fire, it shall be first burned. And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.