Parriana: Or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr ...H. Colburn, 1828 |
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Page xvi
... doubt as to the propriety of any person's re- maining in the bosom of the Church , though that person may not wholly approve of its doctrines and discipline , I would entreat his particular attention to the following observations ...
... doubt as to the propriety of any person's re- maining in the bosom of the Church , though that person may not wholly approve of its doctrines and discipline , I would entreat his particular attention to the following observations ...
Page xix
... doubts as to the expediency of making clergymen magistrates . This is a course , which , whenever it can be done conveniently , I should certainly be glad to see changed , unless in counties , where there are very few resident lay ...
... doubts as to the expediency of making clergymen magistrates . This is a course , which , whenever it can be done conveniently , I should certainly be glad to see changed , unless in counties , where there are very few resident lay ...
Page xxv
... doubt of the historical fact , or of the campanological powers of Mr. Bull : " It was to Worcester - College that our hero was re- moved by election , and put under the care of Dr. Gower , the then Provost . Gower was a man of ...
... doubt of the historical fact , or of the campanological powers of Mr. Bull : " It was to Worcester - College that our hero was re- moved by election , and put under the care of Dr. Gower , the then Provost . Gower was a man of ...
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... - fication of a single word , he will instantly con- sult ten or twenty authors , till his doubts are removed . The general course of his reading lies in those books , which hold the chief rank in the libraries 30 PARRIANA : OR NOTICES OF.
... - fication of a single word , he will instantly con- sult ten or twenty authors , till his doubts are removed . The general course of his reading lies in those books , which hold the chief rank in the libraries 30 PARRIANA : OR NOTICES OF.
Page 57
... doubt of a general coincidence between him and our amiable Addison upon the intricate subject . He repeatedly interrogated me , if I had lately thought upon Addison's paper , No. 487. of the Spectator , in reference to our opinions ? I ...
... doubt of a general coincidence between him and our amiable Addison upon the intricate subject . He repeatedly interrogated me , if I had lately thought upon Addison's paper , No. 487. of the Spectator , in reference to our opinions ? I ...
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Page 60 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...
Page 103 - In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things ! I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most excellent performances of genius which I felt at that age from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Page 60 - ... inform them. Thus it is observed that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves ; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 276 - They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them ; but they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity ; from whence they were called men of latitude.
Page 63 - I do not suppose, that the soul in these instances is entirely loose and unfettered from the body; it is sufficient, if she is not so far sunk and immersed in matter, nor entangled and perplexed in her operations, with such motions of blood and spirits, as when she actuates the machine in its waking hours. The corporeal union is slackened enough to give the mind more play. The soul seems gathered within herself, and recovers that spring which is broken and weakened, when she operates more in concert...
Page 312 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 195 - Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character .they leave and the character they assume.
Page 346 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Page 404 - His life is gentle, and the elements ' So mix'd in him, that Nature may stand up ' And say to all the world, This is a man.
Page 60 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.