An Historical Account of My Own Life: With Some Reflections on the Times I Have Lived In. (1671-1731.)H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - Calamy, Edmund |
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... told them , that though I had nothing to make me uneasy in the station I was in , yet I was desirous to see my way from it , as clear as it was to it ; that I was un- der no tie where I was , if Providence opened my way to a place of ...
... told them , that though I had nothing to make me uneasy in the station I was in , yet I was desirous to see my way from it , as clear as it was to it ; that I was un- der no tie where I was , if Providence opened my way to a place of ...
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... told the House freely , that he was fully empowered to give the Royal assent to all the Acts voted in this Ses- sion , except this . He was sadly embarrassed ; and # They may be met with in an Account of the Proceedings of the ...
... told the House freely , that he was fully empowered to give the Royal assent to all the Acts voted in this Ses- sion , except this . He was sadly embarrassed ; and # They may be met with in an Account of the Proceedings of the ...
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... told him , frankly , that the principles there advanced were spreading so wide , and prevailing so generally among us , that if he neglected the present opportunity , he might afterwards find it very diffi- cult to make way for other ...
... told him , frankly , that the principles there advanced were spreading so wide , and prevailing so generally among us , that if he neglected the present opportunity , he might afterwards find it very diffi- cult to make way for other ...
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... told them he was for no Union at any rate , and therefore was for giving up the question at once , and letting her Majesty have the honour of naming the Commissioners herself , upon whom they were not likely to have agreed . But that ...
... told them he was for no Union at any rate , and therefore was for giving up the question at once , and letting her Majesty have the honour of naming the Commissioners herself , upon whom they were not likely to have agreed . But that ...
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... told me he was very sensible of it , and , therefore , would himself make it his request to my Lord Treasurer to introduce us , and would send me a letter by one of his domestic servants , by which he would signify it as his advice to ...
... told me he was very sensible of it , and , therefore , would himself make it his request to my Lord Treasurer to introduce us , and would send me a letter by one of his domestic servants , by which he would signify it as his advice to ...
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Page 84 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Page 475 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 307 - Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shall thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 451 - THERE is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions ; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness ; the Maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity ; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Page 297 - George, he was made secretary to the regency, and was required by his office to send notice to Hanover that the queen was dead, and that the throne was vacant. To do this would not have been difficult to any man but Addison, who was so overwhelmed with the greatness of the event, and so distracted by choice of expression, that the lords, who 5 could not wait for the niceties of criticism, called Mr.
Page 533 - The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Page 306 - THE King observing with judicious eyes The state of both his universities, To one he sent a regiment : for why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 519 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.
Page 307 - AN ATTEMPT TOWARDS RECOVERING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBERS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HEADS OF COLLEGES, FELLOWS, SCHOLARS, &c.
Page 543 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.