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... ladies withdrew , and left them to private conversation ; when Boer- haave took occasion to tell him what had been , during his illness , the chief subject of his thoughts , He had never doubted of the spiritual and imma- terial nature ...
... ladies withdrew , and left them to private conversation ; when Boer- haave took occasion to tell him what had been , during his illness , the chief subject of his thoughts , He had never doubted of the spiritual and imma- terial nature ...
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... ladies to assure them that no injuries should be offered them ; so inseparable is humanity from true courage . Having thus broken the spirits , and scattered the forces of the Spaniards , he pursued his march to his ship , without any ...
... ladies to assure them that no injuries should be offered them ; so inseparable is humanity from true courage . Having thus broken the spirits , and scattered the forces of the Spaniards , he pursued his march to his ship , without any ...
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... lady of a good family , and uncommon genius and beauty , by whom he had ten children , of which eight died young ; and only two sons , Francis and Caspar , lived to console their mother for their father's death . Neither public business ...
... lady of a good family , and uncommon genius and beauty , by whom he had ten children , of which eight died young ; and only two sons , Francis and Caspar , lived to console their mother for their father's death . Neither public business ...
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... Lady Margaret . To recommend him , and to choose , was at that time the same ; and he had now the pleasure of propagating his darling doctrine of predestination , without interruption , and without danger . Being thus flushed with power ...
... Lady Margaret . To recommend him , and to choose , was at that time the same ; and he had now the pleasure of propagating his darling doctrine of predestination , without interruption , and without danger . Being thus flushed with power ...
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... lady with whom the prince was suspected of intimacy , perhaps more than virtue allowed , was seized , I know not upon what accusation , and , by the King's order , not- withstanding all the reasons of decency and tender- ness that ...
... lady with whom the prince was suspected of intimacy , perhaps more than virtue allowed , was seized , I know not upon what accusation , and , by the King's order , not- withstanding all the reasons of decency and tender- ness that ...
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Page 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Page 283 - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Page 311 - Faith ; to be particular, I am of that Reformed new-cast Religion, wherein I dislike nothing but the Name ; of the same belief our Saviour taught, the Apostles disseminated, the Fathers authorized, and the Martyrs confirmed, but by the sinister ends of Princes, the ambition and avarice of Prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native Beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hands of these times to restore it to its primitive Integrity.
Page 436 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Page 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
Page 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Page 280 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Page 60 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into seamen, by making them see, by experience, what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire, as well as upon...
Page 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 435 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.