The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson |
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... excellent erudition and endowments ; whose necessary and daily expenses were hardly reconcilable with his uncertain and narrow estate . Which I mention , for that at this time there was a most generous offer made him for the moderating ...
... excellent erudition and endowments ; whose necessary and daily expenses were hardly reconcilable with his uncertain and narrow estate . Which I mention , for that at this time there was a most generous offer made him for the moderating ...
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... excellent and powerful preaching . About fourteen months after his departure out of England , he returned to his friends of Lincoln's Inn , with his sorrows moderated , and his health improved ; and there betook himself to his con ...
... excellent and powerful preaching . About fourteen months after his departure out of England , he returned to his friends of Lincoln's Inn , with his sorrows moderated , and his health improved ; and there betook himself to his con ...
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... excellent Book of Devotions , which he published at his recovery ; in which the reader may see the most secret thoughts that then possessed his soul para- phrased and made public ; a book that may not unfitly be called a Sacred Picture ...
... excellent Book of Devotions , which he published at his recovery ; in which the reader may see the most secret thoughts that then possessed his soul para- phrased and made public ; a book that may not unfitly be called a Sacred Picture ...
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... form , and his text into divisions ; and the next day betook himself to consult the fathers , and so commit his meditations to his memory , which was excellent . L But upon Saturday he usually gave himself and his mind 44 THE LIFE.
... form , and his text into divisions ; and the next day betook himself to consult the fathers , and so commit his meditations to his memory , which was excellent . L But upon Saturday he usually gave himself and his mind 44 THE LIFE.
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... excellent , thus exemplary was the death of this memorable man . He was buried in that place of St. Paul's Church which he had appointed for that use some years before his death , and by which he passed daily to pay his public devotions ...
... excellent , thus exemplary was the death of this memorable man . He was buried in that place of St. Paul's Church which he had appointed for that use some years before his death , and by which he passed daily to pay his public devotions ...
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