 | John Aikin - 1799 - 582 Seiten
...merits of the two brotheis, Robert and George, Fuller remarks, (Worthies ot England, Surry, p. 82.) that "George was the more plausible preacher, Robert the greater scholar ; George wa. the abler statesman, Robert the deeper divine." Robert Abbot died in the year 1617, being one of... | |
 | 1828
...to the Archbishop.* Of the two brothers it has been remarked, that ' George was the more persuasive preacher, Robert the greater scholar; George, the...divine; gravity did frown in George and smile in Robert, f * Athena Oxon. t Fuller's Worthies of England. THE BENEFIT OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION EXEMPLIFIED IN... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 Seiten
...distinction which some have affected to make, between the talents and tempers of these two brothers : that George was the more plausible preacher, Robert...Gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert; such the qualities of this Robert evidently were; that upon the first sermon he preached at Worcester,... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 584 Seiten
...distinction which some have affected to make, between the talents and tempers of these two brothers ; that George was the more plausible preacher, Robert...Gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert; such the qualities of this Robert evidently were; that upon the first sermon he preached at Worcester,... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 554 Seiten
...distinction which some have affected to make, between the talents and tempers of these two brothers ; that George was the more plausible preacher, Robert...Gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert; such the qualities of this Robert evidently were; that upon the first sermon he preached at Worcester,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 516 Seiten
...eminent piety, charity, and learning. One of them has attempted a parallel between the two brothers, viz. that " George was the more plausible preacher, Robert...gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert." A few particulars hitherto unnoticed by his biographers may be gleaned from Wood's Annals, published by Mr.... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - 1824 - 854 Seiten
...predestination." Fuller makes this distinction between the talents and tempers of the prelatical brothers :— " George was the more plausible preacher, Robert the...gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert." The same writer thus proceeds: — " what is said of the French, so graceful is their garbe, that they... | |
 | 1826 - 384 Seiten
...were two of the most distinguished preachers of their day. " George," says one of their biographers, "was the more plausible preacher ; Robert, the greater...gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert" John Stanhope, Esq. happening to hear Robert once preach at St. Paul's Cross, was so pleased with him,... | |
 | 1826 - 370 Seiten
...their hiographers, " was the most plausible preacher; Robert, the greater scholar; George, the able statesman ; Robert, the deeper divine ; gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert." John Stanhope, Esq. happening to hear Robert once preach at St. Paul's Cross, was so pleased with him,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 Seiten
...speaking ot the two brothers, says, — " that George was the more plausible preacher, Robert the greatest scholar; George the abler statesman ; Robert the deeper...gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert. He published several pieces ; he also left behind him sundry manuscripts, which Dr. Corbet, his son-in-law,... | |
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George was the more plausible preacher, Robert the greater scholar; George the abler statesman, Robert the deeper divine; gravity did frown in George, and smile in Robert" 
