Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England : from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 4J.G. & F. Rivington, 1839 - Christian biography |
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... hath been blest with men of remarkable wisdom , and a wil- lingness to serve their country , and indeed , to do good to all mankind ; for which they are eminent . But alas ! this family did in the late rebellion suffer extremely in ...
... hath been blest with men of remarkable wisdom , and a wil- lingness to serve their country , and indeed , to do good to all mankind ; for which they are eminent . But alas ! this family did in the late rebellion suffer extremely in ...
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... hath continued to be so for fifty years : during all which time he hath been master of the revels ; a place that requires a diligent wisdom , with which God hath blest him . The seventh son was Thomas , who being made captain of a ship ...
... hath continued to be so for fifty years : during all which time he hath been master of the revels ; a place that requires a diligent wisdom , with which God hath blest him . The seventh son was Thomas , who being made captain of a ship ...
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... hath dried up those springs , by which scholars say , the Muses use to take up their habitations . However , I need not their help , to reprove the vanity of those many love - poems , that are daily writ and conse- crated to Venus ; nor ...
... hath dried up those springs , by which scholars say , the Muses use to take up their habitations . However , I need not their help , to reprove the vanity of those many love - poems , that are daily writ and conse- crated to Venus ; nor ...
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... hath lately col- lected , and caused many of them to be printed , as an honour- able memorial of his friend Mr. George Herbert and the cause he undertook . And in order to my third and last observation of his great abilities it will be ...
... hath lately col- lected , and caused many of them to be printed , as an honour- able memorial of his friend Mr. George Herbert and the cause he undertook . And in order to my third and last observation of his great abilities it will be ...
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... hath been formerly judged that the domestic servants of the King of Heaven should be of the noblest families ' on earth ; and though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued , and the sacred name of priest ...
... hath been formerly judged that the domestic servants of the King of Heaven should be of the noblest families ' on earth ; and though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued , and the sacred name of priest ...
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