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... Death of his Wife , reposited among her Me- morials , May 8 , 1752 443 May 6 , 1752 444 March 28 , 1754 - ibid . on the Day on which his Mother died , January 23 , 1759 - 445 March 25 , 1759 446 January 1 , 1770 447 January 1 , 1777 ...
... Death of his Wife , reposited among her Me- morials , May 8 , 1752 443 May 6 , 1752 444 March 28 , 1754 - ibid . on the Day on which his Mother died , January 23 , 1759 - 445 March 25 , 1759 446 January 1 , 1770 447 January 1 , 1777 ...
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... death , he left his family very ill provided for , but under the care of a mother , whose piety was likely to bring the blessing of Providence upon them , and whose wise conduct supplied the want of fortune by advantages of greater ...
... death , he left his family very ill provided for , but under the care of a mother , whose piety was likely to bring the blessing of Providence upon them , and whose wise conduct supplied the want of fortune by advantages of greater ...
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... deaths . This and other attempts upon his life obliged him to confine himself to his convent , where he engaged in writing the history of the Council of Trent , a work unequalled for the judicious disposition of the matter , and artful ...
... deaths . This and other attempts upon his life obliged him to confine himself to his convent , where he engaged in writing the history of the Council of Trent , a work unequalled for the judicious disposition of the matter , and artful ...
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... death ; and on Thursday prepared for his change by receiv- ing the Viaticum with such marks of devotion , as equally melted and edified the beholders . Through the whole course of his illness to the last hour of his life , he was ...
... death ; and on Thursday prepared for his change by receiv- ing the Viaticum with such marks of devotion , as equally melted and edified the beholders . Through the whole course of his illness to the last hour of his life , he was ...
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... death of professor Hotten , the professorship of physick and botany fell to him of course . ۱۰ On this occasion he asserted the simplicity and fa- cility of the science of physick , in opposition to those that think obscurity ...
... death of professor Hotten , the professorship of physick and botany fell to him of course . ۱۰ On this occasion he asserted the simplicity and fa- cility of the science of physick , in opposition to those that think obscurity ...
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Page 423 - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing.
Page 276 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Page 332 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Page 368 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Page 181 - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his Curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For, there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
Page 39 - So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilities to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers' May those who study his writings imitate his life ! and those who endeavour after his knowledge aspire likewise to his piety...
Page 438 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Page 445 - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
Page 283 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Page 276 - 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.