The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Τόμος 5Alexander Chalmers J. Nichols, 1812 |
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Σελίδα 500 - You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Σελίδα 58 - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 •'[ Fothergill, John].
Σελίδα 316 - In the preamble of this act (which passed the legislature), a conviction was expressed, that ' if many offenders convicted of crimes for which transportation has been usually inflicted, were ordered to solitary confinement, accompanied by well regulated labour and religious instruction, it might be the means, under Providence, not only of deterring others from the commission of the like crimes, but also of reforming the individuals and inuring them to habits of industry.
Σελίδα 56 - Poor philosopher Berkeley has now the idea t of health, which was very hard to produce in him ; for he had an idea of a strange fever upon him so strong, that it was very hard to destroy it by introducing a contrary one.
Σελίδα 359 - A curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on folio copper plûtes, afler drawings taken from the life, by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added, a short description of the plants, and their common uses in physic, ? vols, folio.
Σελίδα 264 - The effect of certaine Sermons touching the full Redemption of Mankind by the death and bloud of Christ Jesus ; wherein...
Σελίδα 141 - February, 1749-50, in the 62d year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by the rev.
Σελίδα 159 - Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America, by the Earl of Abingdon.
Σελίδα 206 - Briefe and Short Instruction of the Art of Musicke, to teach how to make Discant of all proportions that are in use : very necessary for all such as are desirous to attaine...
Σελίδα 338 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...