 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...rewards, and men who lived in a dutiful submission to all the doctrines of revealed religion. I shall in this paper only instance Sir Francis Bacon, a man who,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...show, that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ord.in--.ry genius in their writings, and were the glory of their limes, were men whose hopes were... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...common cry of every cavilling, empty scribbler, I shall shew that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and were the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...the glory of their times, were men whose hopes were rilled with immortality, and the prospect of future rewards, and men who lived in a dutiful submission... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...the glory of their times, were men whose hopes were tilled with immortality, and the prospect of future rewards, and men who lived in a dutiful submission... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...cry of every cavilling, empty, scribbler, I shall shew that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and were the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...cry of every cavilling, empty, scribbler, I shall shew that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and were the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...common cry of every cavilling, empty scribbler, I shall shew that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and were the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...common cry of every cavilling, empty scribbler, I shall shew that all the laymen who have exerted a more than ordinary genius in their writings, and were the... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pages
...eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples...their times, were men whose hopes were filled with mmortality, and the prospect of future rewards, and men who lived in a dutiful submission to all the... | |
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It is now my intention to show how those in our own nation, that have been unquestionably the most eminent for learning and knowledge, were likewise the most eminent for their adherence to the religion of their country. I might produce very shining examples... 
