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See ante, iii. 248. See ante, iv. 295, where Boswell asked Johnson 'if he would not have done more good if he had been more gentle. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I have done more good as I am. Obscenity and impiety have always been repressed in my company. 'Mr.
First come "signs," every sign a warning, yet the peoples, the enemies of Christ, will not hear nor see. "Immediately after the Tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." Matt. xxiv. 29. Isaiah xiii. 9-10-13. Joel ii. 30, 31. Joel iii. 15. Rev. vi. 12-14.
How cruelly they were then undeceived belongs to the history of the next reign; here we need only remark that the Articles of Limerick were not more shamefully violated by the statute 6th and 7th, William III., than the Articles of Mellifont were violated by this Proclamation of the third year of James I.
Whilst the Count of Flanders, after having vainly attempted to excite an uprising against Van Artevelde, was being forced, in order to escape from the people of Bruges, to mount his horse in hot haste, at night and barely armed, and to flee away to St. Omer, Philip of Valois and Edward III. were preparing, on either side, for the war which they could see drawing near.
I am now again out of conceit with him. I wish I were fairly out of his power. * See Vol.I. Letters II. and III. He has sent up three times to beg admittance; in the two last with unusual earnestness. But I have sent him word, I will finish what I am about. What to do about going from this place, I cannot tell.
Prelates argue corruptly for bishops' prelacy over their brethren the ministers, from the superiority of the apostles over presbyters. Of a Divine Right by Divine Approbation. III. By divine approbation of the Spirit of Jesus Christ in his word.
This child was destined to be the Empress-Queen, on whose dominion the sun never sets. Yet so remote did such a destiny then seem, owing to the possibilities of the Regent's life, and of children being born to the Duke of Clarence, that in some courtly biographies of George III. there is no mention made of the birth of the little princess.
He began to earn his living, we may be sure, and then he went to England, where, in spite of the prejudice there must have been against the colonists, he became at once a favourite of George III., a friend of Reynolds and of all the English artists of repute unless perhaps of Gainsborough, who made friends with none.
The words quoted above were the words of Canning, but the spirit that animated them was that of George III. His storm-tossed life was now verging towards the dread bourne of insanity; but it was given to him to make this stern yet half-pleading appeal to the Czar's better nature.
Thrale's daughters 'never to think that she had arithmetic enough. Ante, p. 171, note 3. See ante, iii. 207, note 3. Cowper wrote on May 10 to the Rev. John Newton: 'We rejoice in the account you give us of Dr. Johnson. His conversion will indeed be a singular proof of the omnipotence of Grace; and the more singular, the more decided. Southey's Cowper, xv. 150.
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