The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence,

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828
 

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Strana 398 - but they are in peace. Having been a little chastised they shall be greatly rewarded, for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself." I beg the favour of you to present my best respects and best wishes to Mrs. and the Miss Wakefields, together with my thanks for the attention which they have
Strana 120 - a right humble and poor estate. Wherefore, if the gentleman's son be apt to learning, let him be admitted; if not apt, let the poor man's child, that is apt, enter his room." With words to the like effect. Such a seasonable patron of poor men was the Archbishop. The
Strana 693 - The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward ; every thing presses on towards eternity ; from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in which bears all the sons of men towards that interminable ocean. Meanwhile heaven is attracting to itself whatsoever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself
Strana 119 - more apt to apply their study than is the gentleman's son delicately educated." Hereunto it was, on the other part, replied, " That it was meet for the ploughman's son to go to the plough, and the artificer's son to apply the trade of his parent's vocation, and the
Strana 499 - an Act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts ; the other, " an Act for the more effectually preventing seditious meetings and assemblies.
Strana 119 - thought it not indifferent so to order the matter ; for," said he, " poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like; and
Strana 687 - Mr. Hall, like Bishop Taylor, has the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint.
Strana 393 - never bewilders them by flights into romance. His philosophy is far more just, and far more amiable than the philosophy of Paine, and his eloquence is only not equal to the eloquence of Mr. Burke. He is argumentative without sophistry, fervid without fury, profound without obscurity, and sublime without extravagance.
Strana 120 - most part of the nobility came up by feats of arms and martial acts." " As though," said the Archbishop, " that the noble captain was always unfurnished of good learning and knowledge to persuade and dissuade his army rhetorically, who rather that way is brought into authority, than else
Strana 480 - more correct and more pure; or whose judgment upon any composition in Greek, Latin, or English, would carry with it higher authority to my mind. To those discourses which, when delivered before an academical audience, captivated the young, and interested the old, which were argumentative without formality, and brilliant without

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