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... discourses , three volumes were published after his death . Mr Charles Butler admits that , as a preacher , his relative almost wholly failed . " His sermons , " he says , 66 were sometimes interesting and pathetic , but they were ...
... discourses , three volumes were published after his death . Mr Charles Butler admits that , as a preacher , his relative almost wholly failed . " His sermons , " he says , 66 were sometimes interesting and pathetic , but they were ...
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... discourses , were edited by his friend Dr Balguy . They are acute and close - reasoned performances , written in a style of great perspicuity and purity . " He was , " says Cole , " rather a little , thin man ; florid and red ; with ...
... discourses , were edited by his friend Dr Balguy . They are acute and close - reasoned performances , written in a style of great perspicuity and purity . " He was , " says Cole , " rather a little , thin man ; florid and red ; with ...
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... Discourses on the Hea- venly State , considered under the Idea of a Sabbath . ' In 1771 , he published Discourses to the Aged . ' Our author's next publication , which appeared in 1774 , was entitled Christian Zeal ; or three Dis ...
... Discourses on the Hea- venly State , considered under the Idea of a Sabbath . ' In 1771 , he published Discourses to the Aged . ' Our author's next publication , which appeared in 1774 , was entitled Christian Zeal ; or three Dis ...
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... discourse , -who did not amuse their readers with empty declamations , and fine - spun theories of tolera- tion , while ... discourses of the bishop have been published ; they are all worthy of their excellent author . Of the bishop's ...
... discourse , -who did not amuse their readers with empty declamations , and fine - spun theories of tolera- tion , while ... discourses of the bishop have been published ; they are all worthy of their excellent author . Of the bishop's ...
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... discourses delivered on these occasions , and written out afterwards as dictated by the author to an amanuensis . They had evidently been prepared with care in his own mind , and they contain a copiousness of language , a felicity of ...
... discourses delivered on these occasions , and written out afterwards as dictated by the author to an amanuensis . They had evidently been prepared with care in his own mind , and they contain a copiousness of language , a felicity of ...
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Seite 220 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Seite 54 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Seite 219 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 100 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Seite 218 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Seite 104 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation: English, Scotch, and Irish; Whig and Tory; churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist; patriot and courtier united in their rage against the man, who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I, and the Earl of Strafford...
Seite 220 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 227 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Seite 14 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Seite 125 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.