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Memoirs of the Life, Studies and Writings of Ge. Horne, Lord Bishop of Norwich
Memoirs of the Life Studies and Writings of Ge Horne Lord Bishop of Norwich Author:William Jones General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1799 Original Publisher: Davis Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fr... more »om more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISPUTATION. i. Disputation makes us ready, and expert in ufing the knowlege we have, but fnfficeth not for the acquifition of more. It is exercife, but not food. -- Hift. ofR. S. p. 18. a. It is but too much a cuftom to give ill names to thole who differ from us in opinion. Dr. Hammond mentions, as a humorous inflance of it, that when a Dutchman's horfe does hot go as he would have him, he in great rage calls him an Armlman. DUELLING. From the Will of Colonel Thomas, dated London, September 3, 1783. " I Am now called upon, and, by the rules of what " is called honour, forced into a perfonal interview " with Col. Gordon. God only can know the event; " and into his hands I commit my foul, confcious " only of having done my duty. In the firft place I " commit my foul to Almighty God, in hopes of his " mercy and pardon for the irreligious flcp I now (in " compliance with the unwarrantable cuftoms of this " wicked world) put myfelf under the necefiity of taking." ECCLE, ECCLESIASTICUS. The late Sir Edward Dering ufed to fay, " He " did not pretend to underftand much of the Bible, " but he was fure the gentleman who wrote that book " knew the world as well as any man that ever lived " in it." Sept. 29, 1782. There is more good fenfe, and are better precepts for the conduct of life, than in all the morality of the heathen. " Dr. Campbell, Biog. Brit, iii. iif. -- It is pity but a linall and fair edition of the Greek were printed for the ufe of fcholars and preachers. ECSTASIES. There is a fet of Mahometan heretics, who ex- cufe themfelves from going the pilgrimage to Mecca,...« less