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So far from agreeing with Nelson in his Nonjuring sentiments, the prospect of the constitutional change had kindled in him enthusiastic expectations. 'Good Dr. Bray, remarks Whiston, 'had said how happy and religious the nation would become when the House of Hanover came, and was very indignant when Mr.
Having defended herself against the charge of immodesty, she declined to urge her own inclination or the rights of Mr. Burroughs; her mute patience did not lack its effect with the scrupulous but tender parent. 'I am willing to admit, my dear, said Mr. Whiston one evening,
The red hair, she thought, was not disagreeably red; she didn't dislike that shade of colour. He was humming a tune; it seemed to be his habit, and it argued healthy cheerfulness. Meanwhile Mr. Whiston sat stiffly in his corner, staring at the landscape, a model of respectable muteness. At the first stop another man entered. This time, unmistakably, a commercial traveller.
The people saw all this, and laughed and shouted as if they would never finish. Mr. "Do I understand," he said, "that my fair and eloquent friend demands perfect political and civil equality for her sex?" "I do!" exclaimed Selina Whiston, in her firmest manner. "Let me be more explicit," he continued.
The ancients were almost in the same way of thinking with Mr. Whiston, and fancied that comets were always the forerunners of some great calamity which was to befall mankind.
I shall have to tell the Padre, and he'll preach a sermon about it! I should never have thought you would have been frightened into religion! HANCOCK. Frightened! You little swine! You talk about being frightened after last night! I tell you I'd rather be lying out there with Dodd and Whiston than be sitting here with you. Frightened into religion!
The heretic and the churchman are strongly marked in the characters and fortunes of Whiston and Bishop Newton; and even the dullness of Michael de Marolles and Anthony Wood acquires some value from the faithful representation of men and manners. That I am equal or superior to some of these, the effects of modesty or affectation cannot force me to dissemble.
Clarke distinguished themselves in divinity Mr. Whiston wrote in defence of Arianism John Locke shone forth the great restorer of human reason the earl of Shaftesbury raised an elegant, though feeble, system of moral philosophy Berkeley, afterwards bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, surpassed all his contemporaries in subtle and variety of metaphysical arguments, as well as in the art of deduction lord Bolingbroke's talents as a metaphysician have been questioned since his posthumous works appeared great progress was made in mathematics and astronomy, by Wallis, Halley, and Flamstead the art of medicine owed some valuable improvements to the classical Dr.
Mr. Whiston savoured these things, and Rose in this respect was not wholly unlike him. To-day was the last of their vacation. The weather had been magnificent throughout; Rose's cheeks were more than touched by the sun, greatly to the advantage of her unpretending comeliness.
Whiston; one of the members, more considerate, walked across the floor to her, and tried to explain in what manner she was violating the rules; and in another minute she sat down, so white, rigid and silent that it made me shake in my shoes to look at her. "I have made a great blunder," she said to me, that evening; "and it may set us back a little; but I shall recover my ground."
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