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Pagina 92
... piece of artillery , threw several carcasses with such effect as to set on fire one of the enemies ' line of battle ships , commanded by the Chevalier Coetlo- gon . Admiral Herbert particularly noticed his merit on the occasion , and ...
... piece of artillery , threw several carcasses with such effect as to set on fire one of the enemies ' line of battle ships , commanded by the Chevalier Coetlo- gon . Admiral Herbert particularly noticed his merit on the occasion , and ...
Pagina 96
... piece of argument or of elegant writing . Though he does not proceed to the ultima Thule of tory principles- the doctrine of passive obedience - he borders on it as closely as possi- ble . Indeed we cannot see , for our own parts , why ...
... piece of argument or of elegant writing . Though he does not proceed to the ultima Thule of tory principles- the doctrine of passive obedience - he borders on it as closely as possi- ble . Indeed we cannot see , for our own parts , why ...
Pagina 111
... piece of preferment was to Cannock or Cank , in Staffordshire ; and not long afterwards he was appointed preacher to St Saviour's church , Southwark . We ga- ther from Burnet , that , for several years before this time , he had been in ...
... piece of preferment was to Cannock or Cank , in Staffordshire ; and not long afterwards he was appointed preacher to St Saviour's church , Southwark . We ga- ther from Burnet , that , for several years before this time , he had been in ...
Pagina 121
... piece of ground for a term of 999 years , at a rent of £ 30 a year . Having cleared the space , which was then occupied by a number of good dwelling - houses , he laid the first stone of his new building in 1722. He lived to see it ...
... piece of ground for a term of 999 years , at a rent of £ 30 a year . Having cleared the space , which was then occupied by a number of good dwelling - houses , he laid the first stone of his new building in 1722. He lived to see it ...
Pagina 127
... piece of irony , in which the author gravely proposed , as the easiest and speediest way of ridding the land off dissenters , to hang their ministers and banish the people . But both churchmen and dissenters viewed the whole in a ...
... piece of irony , in which the author gravely proposed , as the easiest and speediest way of ridding the land off dissenters , to hang their ministers and banish the people . But both churchmen and dissenters viewed the whole in a ...
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Pagina 75 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice...
Pagina 265 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pagina 397 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Pagina 210 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Pagina 56 - Trevor, and who was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.
Pagina 275 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Pagina 398 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Pagina 53 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Pagina 254 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
Pagina 423 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.