Lord Bacon Not the Author of "The Christian Paradoxes": Being a Reprint of "Memorials of Godliness and Christianity,"

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private circulation [Ballantyne], 1864 - 126 páginas
 

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Página 33 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 20 - Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise...
Página 122 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever : but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Página 122 - In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old...
Página 122 - Apostles mention (of which a wicked book is abroad and uncensured, though deserving to be burnt, whose Author hath been so impudent as to set his name to it and dedicate it to yourselves) ; or for liberty to marry incestuously — will you grant a toleration for all this...
Página 24 - And indeed, what are the Heavens, the earth, nay, every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of his glory ? I have no more to say ; I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in writing. Farewell, Reader. FRANCIS QUARLES. T) Y fathers back'd, by Holy Writ led on : Thou show'st the way to HEAV'N by Helicon : The Muses...
Página 1 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Página 125 - ... stolen word for word from the mouth of a Heathen woman praying to a Heathen God, and that in no serious book, but in the vain amatorious poem of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia...
Página 120 - Testimonies which are alledg'd to that purpose in some late Treatises : one whereof goes under the Name of James Archbishop of Armagh, London, Printed by RO and GDfor Thomas Underhill. and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible, in Wood-Street, 1641, first edition, "By Milton,
Página 37 - did preach that day to the Assembly two of the most Scottish and free sermons that ever I heard anywhere. The way here of all preachers, even the best, has been to speak before the Parliament with so profound a reverence as truly took all edge from their exhortations, and made all applications of them toothless and adulatorious.

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