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... hear Dr. Gill preach , merely be- cause he was informed that the doctor had written a folio book on the Canticles . A wise reason indeed ! — Dr. Johnson , when he was at Edinburgh , although he was personally acquainted with the ...
... hear Dr. Gill preach , merely be- cause he was informed that the doctor had written a folio book on the Canticles . A wise reason indeed ! — Dr. Johnson , when he was at Edinburgh , although he was personally acquainted with the ...
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... hear his mathematical lectures . He made such proficiency , that he was afterwards elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1711 , and in 1736 , he was admitted Member of the Royal Society . He invented , for his own use , a ...
... hear his mathematical lectures . He made such proficiency , that he was afterwards elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1711 , and in 1736 , he was admitted Member of the Royal Society . He invented , for his own use , a ...
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... hear him . His discourse was particularly levelled against irreligious books ; and the lady had cause enough to reproach herself on that score , having been in the habit of selling many publi- cations which were contrary to good manners ...
... hear him . His discourse was particularly levelled against irreligious books ; and the lady had cause enough to reproach herself on that score , having been in the habit of selling many publi- cations which were contrary to good manners ...
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... hear any one of this species com- plaining that life is short ? ' They Mr. Dodd , an eminent minister , being solicited to play at cards , arose from his seat , and uncovered his head . The company asked him what he was going to do . He ...
... hear any one of this species com- plaining that life is short ? ' They Mr. Dodd , an eminent minister , being solicited to play at cards , arose from his seat , and uncovered his head . The company asked him what he was going to do . He ...
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... hear you when you speak about astronomy , or other parts of the mathematics , because that is a subject you have studied , and well understand ; but you should not talk of Christianty , for you have not studied it . I have , and am ...
... hear you when you speak about astronomy , or other parts of the mathematics , because that is a subject you have studied , and well understand ; but you should not talk of Christianty , for you have not studied it . I have , and am ...
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Page 451 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 441 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 20 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 148 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
Page 20 - Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Page 199 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 254 - He was once a man, and some little name, but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for, by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has, for more than seven years, been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Page 111 - Whom have I in heaven but thee 1 And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart f aileth : //'••' God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 70 - Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 116 - Hobbes wrote his Leviathan to serve the cause of Charles I ; but, finding him fail of success, he turned it to the defence of Cromwell, and made a merit of this fact to the usurper, as Hobbes himself unblushingly declared to lord Clarendon. Morgan had no regard...