General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... bishop , in the circular letter which he sent to the clergy of his province , exhorted them to cultivate a good correspondence with the Pro- testant Dissenters , and he endeavoured to pro- mote a comprehension of them in the national ...
... bishop , in the circular letter which he sent to the clergy of his province , exhorted them to cultivate a good correspondence with the Pro- testant Dissenters , and he endeavoured to pro- mote a comprehension of them in the national ...
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... Bishop Burnet informs us , that he was a man of solemn deportment , had a sullen gravity in his looks , and was con- siderably learned . He had put on a monastic strictness , and lived abstracted from company . -He was a dry , cold man ...
... Bishop Burnet informs us , that he was a man of solemn deportment , had a sullen gravity in his looks , and was con- siderably learned . He had put on a monastic strictness , and lived abstracted from company . -He was a dry , cold man ...
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... Bishop of Placentia , and subse- quently a Cardinal . Sanders himself was sometime afterwards sent to Spain by Pope Gregory XIII . in the same character . From this country he was induced , by the warmth of his zeal for the Popish cause ...
... Bishop of Placentia , and subse- quently a Cardinal . Sanders himself was sometime afterwards sent to Spain by Pope Gregory XIII . in the same character . From this country he was induced , by the warmth of his zeal for the Popish cause ...
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... Bishop of London , who at first ordained him deacon , and afterwards priest . Two years after this he was chosen sub - rector of Lincoln - college ; and he filled the same dignity and trust in 1614 , and 1616. While he held this office ...
... Bishop of London , who at first ordained him deacon , and afterwards priest . Two years after this he was chosen sub - rector of Lincoln - college ; and he filled the same dignity and trust in 1614 , and 1616. While he held this office ...
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... bishop of in 1643 , the parliament summoned the famous his diocese , and by most of the nobility and assembly of divines to meet at Westminster , gentry of that county . " He was often called for the purpose of deliberating on ...
... bishop of in 1643 , the parliament summoned the famous his diocese , and by most of the nobility and assembly of divines to meet at Westminster , gentry of that county . " He was often called for the purpose of deliberating on ...
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