The Annual Biography and Obituary, Band 2Longman., 1818 |
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... course , very slenderly provided for . He , however , obtained the office of Treasurer of the Charter House , which enabled him to maintain and educate his family with a considerable degree of respectability . His son , Herbert , of ...
... course , very slenderly provided for . He , however , obtained the office of Treasurer of the Charter House , which enabled him to maintain and educate his family with a considerable degree of respectability . His son , Herbert , of ...
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... course of sermons " On Religious Hypocrisy , " which discourses were afterwards published . He also appears at this time to have mingled freely with the world at large , and to have often frequented the play - houses ; for he now began ...
... course of sermons " On Religious Hypocrisy , " which discourses were afterwards published . He also appears at this time to have mingled freely with the world at large , and to have often frequented the play - houses ; for he now began ...
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... course with mankind . Having thus voluntarily relinquished the emoluments and advantages resulting from his new establishment , and rejected all the favours of fortune , at the precise moment when , for the first time in his life , she ...
... course with mankind . Having thus voluntarily relinquished the emoluments and advantages resulting from his new establishment , and rejected all the favours of fortune , at the precise moment when , for the first time in his life , she ...
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... course of this work , that Mr. Williams , while a young man , was eager to overturn many of what he deemed , the prevailing errors of the times ; and if not a desperate zealot of political reform , that he was , at least , de- sirous of ...
... course of this work , that Mr. Williams , while a young man , was eager to overturn many of what he deemed , the prevailing errors of the times ; and if not a desperate zealot of political reform , that he was , at least , de- sirous of ...
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... course of this narrative , that Mr. Williams was a great and zealous friend to truth ; and he constantly inculcated its maxims , into the two sexes , as indis- pensably necessary for both . He approved of civility and politeness , and ...
... course of this narrative , that Mr. Williams was a great and zealous friend to truth ; and he constantly inculcated its maxims , into the two sexes , as indis- pensably necessary for both . He approved of civility and politeness , and ...
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Seite 327 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 172 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Seite 323 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Seite 91 - The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen* as the most precious jewel of their coronet.
Seite 327 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Seite 123 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust...
Seite 124 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Seite 123 - ... justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ; to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church — the reclaiming of three millions of men from bondage, and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving
Seite 285 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 123 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...