The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... took down the record of his life as he narrated it . His memory to the very last was surprising , and as the scenes of his earlier life passed before him , he would recall facts and figures , dates and words , with such accuracy , that ...
... took down the record of his life as he narrated it . His memory to the very last was surprising , and as the scenes of his earlier life passed before him , he would recall facts and figures , dates and words , with such accuracy , that ...
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... took up their residence at St. Giles's House . Their son was the first Earl of Shaftesbury . In an autobiographical fragment he says : - " My birth was at Wimborn St. Gyles , in the county of Dorsett , on the 22nd day of July , 1621 ...
... took up their residence at St. Giles's House . Their son was the first Earl of Shaftesbury . In an autobiographical fragment he says : - " My birth was at Wimborn St. Gyles , in the county of Dorsett , on the 22nd day of July , 1621 ...
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... took an eager part in maintaining the truth of the story of Titus Oates and the alleged Popish Plot . Among the many matters by which the first Earl of Shaftesbury has made himself to be remem- bered are his opposition to the ...
... took an eager part in maintaining the truth of the story of Titus Oates and the alleged Popish Plot . Among the many matters by which the first Earl of Shaftesbury has made himself to be remem- bered are his opposition to the ...
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... took the hazardous step of appearing at Westminster Hall to present to the Grand Jury , then sitting in the Court of King's Bench , an in- dictment of the Duke of York as a Popish Recusant . Shaftesbury's action on this occasion , and ...
... took the hazardous step of appearing at Westminster Hall to present to the Grand Jury , then sitting in the Court of King's Bench , an in- dictment of the Duke of York as a Popish Recusant . Shaftesbury's action on this occasion , and ...
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... took up his residence . But he had not been there many weeks before he was taken ill with gout ; the malady flew to his stomach , and he died on the 21st January , 1683 . There are many opinions as to the character of the first Earl of ...
... took up his residence . But he had not been there many weeks before he was taken ill with gout ; the malady flew to his stomach , and he died on the 21st January , 1683 . There are many opinions as to the character of the first Earl of ...
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Page 494 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 139 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling, Turns the long light that...
Page 171 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Page 184 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 275 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 522 - This is the day which the LORD hath made ; Let us rejoice and be glad in it...
Page 380 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 85 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Page 512 - For GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 172 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.