Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His Writings, and His Opinions Upon a Variety of Important Matters, Civil and Ecclesiastical, Volumen1Hurst, Chance, 1830 |
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... minds , but she never intended it should be the principal , much less the sole object of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to ...
... minds , but she never intended it should be the principal , much less the sole object of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to ...
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... mind of De Foe was formed to an early love of religion ; and his attachment to the cause of nonconformity , was probably heightened by the vexations to which its professors were exposed during the season of his youth . Although we have ...
... mind of De Foe was formed to an early love of religion ; and his attachment to the cause of nonconformity , was probably heightened by the vexations to which its professors were exposed during the season of his youth . Although we have ...
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... mind , it can be extended no farther than to pray , and endeavour by instruction and per- suasion , to enlighten the minds of those we think to be in error . " * * Review for April , 1707 ; vol . iv . p . 105-130 . CHAPTER II . De Foe's ...
... mind , it can be extended no farther than to pray , and endeavour by instruction and per- suasion , to enlighten the minds of those we think to be in error . " * * Review for April , 1707 ; vol . iv . p . 105-130 . CHAPTER II . De Foe's ...
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... mind to quarrel , or put any man into a ferment . " - " When they that dispute , " observes he , " assume to themselves all the learning and all the sense , I think they ought to have some regard to truth and justice but it is ...
... mind to quarrel , or put any man into a ferment . " - " When they that dispute , " observes he , " assume to themselves all the learning and all the sense , I think they ought to have some regard to truth and justice but it is ...
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... minds of studious men , who , if honest to their convictions , cannot all square them by any uniform standard of belief . To at- tempt such a scheme is as wicked as it is preposterous ; for it subverts the sacredness of principle , and ...
... minds of studious men , who , if honest to their convictions , cannot all square them by any uniform standard of belief . To at- tempt such a scheme is as wicked as it is preposterous ; for it subverts the sacredness of principle , and ...
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Página 134 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página xxx - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Página xxxix - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Página xxvii - An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters, in Cases of Preferment, with a Preface, to Mr.
Página 100 - I was witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery; whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table — a bank of at least £2,000 in gold before them — upon which, two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment.
Página 186 - And who, that had beheld such a bankrupt, beggarly fellow as Cromwell, first entering the parliament house with a threadbare torn cloak, and a greasy hat (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state of a king but the changing of his hat into a crown...
Página xlii - Situation, Magnitude, Government, and Commerce. II. The Customs, Manners, Speech, as also the Exercises, Diversions, 'and Employment of the People. III. The Produce and Improvement of the Lands, the Trade and Manufactures. IV. The Sea Ports and Fortifications, the Course of Rivers and Inland Navigation.
Página 65 - Queen Mary, as now in our days. When God has given us a Prince, who is become (may I Kay a miracle) zealous of being the author and instrument of so glorious a work ; but the opposition we are sure to meet with, is also like to be great : so that it imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can, for the harvest is great, and the labourers but few.
Página xxxix - The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman, who, though Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's name at first sight, with their future Contingencies of Fortune. Now living in Exeter court, over against the Savoy, in the Strand.
Página xxvi - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted.