The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particulary the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volume 24J. Nichols, 1815 |
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Page 124 - A Narrative of the Miseries of New England by reason of an arbitrary Government erected there (by Increase Mather).
Page 312 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Page 297 - A brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers...
Page 398 - Colonna, assumed his throne; and at the voice of a herald Petrarch arose. After discoursing on a text of Virgil, and thrice repeating his vows for the prosperity of Rome, he knelt before the throne, and received from the senator a laurel crown, with a more precious declaration, "This is the reward of merit.
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Page 42 - Paulinae ; or the truth of the scripture history of St. Paul evinced, by a comparison of the epistles which bear his name, with the acts of the Apostles, and with one another.
Page 230 - A Commentary, with Notes, on the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles," with other theological pieces.
Page 286 - Penn that, while here and alone in his chamber, being then eleven years old, he was suddenly surprised with an inward comfort, and as he thought an external glory in the room, which gave rise to religious emotions, during which he had the strongest conviction, of the being of a God, and that the soul of man was capable of enjoying communication with him.
Page 328 - Poetry" was published in 1775, a third in 1794. and a fourth is now in the press. In the year 1769 he was nominated chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty ; in 1778 he was promoted to the deanery of Carlisle ; and in 1782 to the bishopric of Dromore...
Page 288 - Truth Exalted, in a short but sure Testimony against all those religions Faiths and Worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of Apostasy ; and for that Glorious Light which is now risen and shines forth in the Life and Doctrine of the despised Quakers as the alone good old way of Life and Salvation.