 | 1828
...nothing too bard for his understanding : this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds...eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning." As to his personal appearance and private life,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1804 - 666 pages
...nothing too hard for his understanding : this man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds...eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning." When king James I. came out of Scotland, on his... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...this work Fope Clement VIII. said, " This man indeed deserves the name of an author. His books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that they shall continue till the last fire shall devour all learning." HOOLE (JOÍÍN} я poet and translator... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...Pope, 'indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will jzain reverence by age, for there are in them such seeds of eternity, that, if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.' The personal appearance of Hooker was mean, for... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...this man indeed deservos the name of an author: his books will get reverence by age, for there are in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Nor was this high, the only testimony and commendations... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...nothing too hard for his understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author. .His books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds...learning ;" all which, whether the pope said it or no, we take to be strictly true. • Dr. Gauden published Hooker's "Works," 1662, fol. with a life, in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author. His books will gel reverence by uge ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that...all learning ;" all which, whether the pope said it orffio, we take to be strictly true. 1666, fol. reprinted in 1676, 1682, and 1723, which last lome... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author. His books will get reverence by uge ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest he like this, they shall continue till the last fire shall devour all learning ;" all which, whether... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 872 pages
...understanding : this man indeed deserves the name of an Author ; his books will get reverence by nge, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all Learning.' No trace can I find, in the above-mentioned respectable... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1816 - 584 pages
...too hard for his understanding. This « man indeed deserves the name of an Author. His books « will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such <...possibly be strictly true of the books themselves. His WORKS. Besides the eight books of "Ecclesiastical Polity," and his " Answer to Mr Traver's Supplication,'*... | |
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There is no learning that this man hath not searched into ; nothing too hard for his understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be... 
