General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, Volume 7G. G. and J. Robinson, 1808 |
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Pagina 23
... bishop of Lycopolis , in Upper Egypt , and was deposed from the episcopal office by Peter , bishop of Alexandria , for reasons of which very diferent accounts are given by ecclesiastical writers . Athanasius says , that he was convicted ...
... bishop of Lycopolis , in Upper Egypt , and was deposed from the episcopal office by Peter , bishop of Alexandria , for reasons of which very diferent accounts are given by ecclesiastical writers . Athanasius says , that he was convicted ...
Pagina 24
... bishop as well as the honour annexed to that office , though it forbad him to ordain any person : which would not have been so mild , had he been convicted of apostacy , or of sacrificing to idols in time of persecution . It is moreover ...
... bishop as well as the honour annexed to that office , though it forbad him to ordain any person : which would not have been so mild , had he been convicted of apostacy , or of sacrificing to idols in time of persecution . It is moreover ...
Pagina 25
... bishop of Sardis in Lydia , and is placed by Cave at the year 170. Some moderns have supposed that he was the angel of the church of Sardis , to whom the epistle in the book of Revelation was di- rected ; but this hypothesis assigns to ...
... bishop of Sardis in Lydia , and is placed by Cave at the year 170. Some moderns have supposed that he was the angel of the church of Sardis , to whom the epistle in the book of Revelation was di- rected ; but this hypothesis assigns to ...
Pagina 67
... bishop , with an observation , which , as it is made by so able and dispassionate a critic , well deserves at ... bishop and martyr , who flourished towards the close of the third and in the early part of the fourth century , according ...
... bishop , with an observation , which , as it is made by so able and dispassionate a critic , well deserves at ... bishop and martyr , who flourished towards the close of the third and in the early part of the fourth century , according ...
Pagina 74
... Bishop Lowth , in his notes on this passage of Isaiah , supposes that Micah copied it from that prophet ; ob- serving that Micah has added a sentence , con- taining a description of well - established peace , for imagery and expression ...
... Bishop Lowth , in his notes on this passage of Isaiah , supposes that Micah copied it from that prophet ; ob- serving that Micah has added a sentence , con- taining a description of well - established peace , for imagery and expression ...
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Pagina 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Pagina 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Pagina 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Pagina 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Pagina 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Pagina 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Pagina 485 - FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Pagina 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Pagina 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.
Pagina 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.