Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, المجلد 9author, 1815 |
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... knowledge . He studied and read a good deal , - as much , in short , as his other avocations would permit ; and aimed to make himself an useful member of society . He was educated with a view to his becoming a Dissenting Minister ; but ...
... knowledge . He studied and read a good deal , - as much , in short , as his other avocations would permit ; and aimed to make himself an useful member of society . He was educated with a view to his becoming a Dissenting Minister ; but ...
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... knowledge and acquirements in Agricultural subjects . The following short extract from a paper found after his death will display his heart and mind in the truest way : May God of his great goodness make me an useful member of society ...
... knowledge and acquirements in Agricultural subjects . The following short extract from a paper found after his death will display his heart and mind in the truest way : May God of his great goodness make me an useful member of society ...
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... knowledge , correcting abuses , and chastising the vicious ; and that he quitted Jamaica , we are well assured , with regret , where he had long enjoyed the friendship of many worthy people , and contributed , by his hospitality , to ...
... knowledge , correcting abuses , and chastising the vicious ; and that he quitted Jamaica , we are well assured , with regret , where he had long enjoyed the friendship of many worthy people , and contributed , by his hospitality , to ...
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... knowledge which he has so well applied to the public good . Our motives are not to add to popularity , but where it is connected with the advancement of Science , and the cause of Literature . " Gent . Mag . vol . LX . pp . 9—11 ...
... knowledge which he has so well applied to the public good . Our motives are not to add to popularity , but where it is connected with the advancement of Science , and the cause of Literature . " Gent . Mag . vol . LX . pp . 9—11 ...
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... knowledge , which would have done honour to her Parliamen- tary representation . As a scholar , he was highly capable of relishing the beauties and sublimities of those works which are the great standards of classical composition , as ...
... knowledge , which would have done honour to her Parliamen- tary representation . As a scholar , he was highly capable of relishing the beauties and sublimities of those works which are the great standards of classical composition , as ...
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الصفحة 543 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law...
الصفحة 518 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called " A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 8vo.
الصفحة 115 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue...
الصفحة 239 - Committee of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical men.
الصفحة 574 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author: his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.
الصفحة 61 - O ! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful. I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live to-morrow.
الصفحة 240 - ... in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season ! " To this vigorous and animated delineation, I shall now add a few particulars from my own observation and reflection.
الصفحة 340 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
الصفحة 290 - Ghost: a Sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Whitsunday, 1867.
الصفحة 677 - Sermons were composed, may be learned from the excellent volume which he has given to the public ; but how they were delivered, can be known only to those that heard them ; for as he appeared in the pulpit, words will not easily describe him. His delivery, though unconstrained, was not negligent, and though forcible, was not turbulent ; disdaining anxious nicety of emphasis, and laboured artifice of action...