Some Account of the Reverend Thomas Robinson, M.A.: Late Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, and Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge : with a Selection of Original Letters |
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... Essay and Butler's Ana- logy , which he had studied attentively , were also of service to him in the examination . Those , who best know the proceedings which were customary in the public exami- nations of that period , will be ...
... Essay and Butler's Ana- logy , which he had studied attentively , were also of service to him in the examination . Those , who best know the proceedings which were customary in the public exami- nations of that period , will be ...
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... essay on some moral subject . On this occasion he had eight com- petitors . Dr. James , the late head master of Rugby , who particularly excelled in writing Latin prose , gained the first prize . I learn from one of his contemporaries ...
... essay on some moral subject . On this occasion he had eight com- petitors . Dr. James , the late head master of Rugby , who particularly excelled in writing Latin prose , gained the first prize . I learn from one of his contemporaries ...
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... Essays which he had published , and the ca- villing disputatious spirit into which the in- firmity of his natural temper and of his languishing body had occasionally betrayed him , having seemed to demand some plain and heart ...
... Essays which he had published , and the ca- villing disputatious spirit into which the in- firmity of his natural temper and of his languishing body had occasionally betrayed him , having seemed to demand some plain and heart ...
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... essays , which were afterwards followed by six more . There cannot be a stronger instance of the instability of human attach- ments than that which was exhibited in the case of Mr. Ludlam . He had appeared almost to idolize Mr. Robinson ...
... essays , which were afterwards followed by six more . There cannot be a stronger instance of the instability of human attach- ments than that which was exhibited in the case of Mr. Ludlam . He had appeared almost to idolize Mr. Robinson ...
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... Essays first came out , “ he had made here and there a hit ; " meaning that there was force in some of his objections . He did not specify the particulars to which he would apply his remark : but I would appeal to the decision of any ...
... Essays first came out , “ he had made here and there a hit ; " meaning that there was force in some of his objections . He did not specify the particulars to which he would apply his remark : but I would appeal to the decision of any ...
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Page 253 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 275 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 260 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 59 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 465 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 367 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works : otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace : otherwise work is no more work.
Page 74 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 297 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Page 257 - Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference...
Page 254 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ...