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... educated at St. John's college , Cambridge , which he left after taking his bachelor's degree in 1743 ; and having studied law in the Inner Temple , was admitted to the bar . He became afterwards Registrar to the corporation of Bed ...
... educated at St. John's college , Cambridge , which he left after taking his bachelor's degree in 1743 ; and having studied law in the Inner Temple , was admitted to the bar . He became afterwards Registrar to the corporation of Bed ...
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... educated in Wykeham's school near Winches- From thence he was chosen to New college , Oxford , of which he became perpetual fellow in 1523 , and studying the civil law , took the degree of bachelor in that faculty , March 3 , 1529-30 ...
... educated in Wykeham's school near Winches- From thence he was chosen to New college , Oxford , of which he became perpetual fellow in 1523 , and studying the civil law , took the degree of bachelor in that faculty , March 3 , 1529-30 ...
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... educated in episcopal trammels , and liked a more liberal behaviour ; yet he was a great man , and I believe an honest man . " The fact , however , was , as Mr. Cole elsewhere informs us , that he was in- ducted Nov. 25 ; but finding ...
... educated in episcopal trammels , and liked a more liberal behaviour ; yet he was a great man , and I believe an honest man . " The fact , however , was , as Mr. Cole elsewhere informs us , that he was in- ducted Nov. 25 ; but finding ...
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... educated under his father at Ipswich , whence he was sent to Cambridge , and admitted a poor scholar of Caius college under the tuition of John Ellys , in April 1669. He took the degree of B. A. in 1673 , and that of M. A. in 1676 ...
... educated under his father at Ipswich , whence he was sent to Cambridge , and admitted a poor scholar of Caius college under the tuition of John Ellys , in April 1669. He took the degree of B. A. in 1673 , and that of M. A. in 1676 ...
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... educated at Emanuel college , Cambridge , where he took his degrees , probably during the usurpation , as we find him D. D. at the restoration . He had the living of St. Stephen's Norwich , from which he was ejected for non - conformity ...
... educated at Emanuel college , Cambridge , where he took his degrees , probably during the usurpation , as we find him D. D. at the restoration . He had the living of St. Stephen's Norwich , from which he was ejected for non - conformity ...
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Side 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Side 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Side 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Side 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Side 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Side 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Side 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Side 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Side 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Side 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.