 | Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 pages
...BURNET'S LIVES OF SIR MATTHEW HALE, AND THE EARL OF ROCHESTER, with Portraits, 4s. boards. " Burnet's Life of Rochester, the critic ought to read for its elegance,...for its arguments, and the saint for its piety."— Dr. JoAiuon. " Sir Matthew wa«, for the brightness and solidity of his• genius, the variety and... | |
 | 1832 - 550 pages
...and Death of the Earl of Rochester, which has been characterized by Dr. Johnson, as ' a book which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety!' There is indeed reason to conclude that this young nobleman was, through divine mercy, the subject... | |
 | 1832 - 592 pages
...author ; whose Account of the Life and Death of the Earl of Hochester, Dr. Johnson says, is a book the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint tur its piety. WILLIAM WAKE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. I HIS eminent prelate was born in 1657, at Blandford,... | |
 | 1832 - 616 pages
...author ; whose Account of the Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester, Dr. Johnson says, is a book the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saiut for its piety. WILLIAM WAKE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. THIS eminent prelate was born in 1657,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...of Rochester, nothing could easily be added to the encomium of Dr. Johnson : ' It is a work, which the critic ought to read, for its elegance ; the philosopher,...for its arguments ; and the saint, for its piety. It were an injury to the reader, to offer him an abridgment.' In the sermon at Mr. Boyle's funeral, we... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...Burnet, in a book entitled ' Some passages of the life and death of John, earl of Rochester ' ; which the critic ought to read, for its elegance ; the philosopher,...for its arguments ; and the saint, for its piety." SAMUEL JOHNSON. SOME PASSAGES THE LIFE JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER. JOHN WILMOT, earl of Rochester, was... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 pages
...Memoir itself, Dr. Johnson's encomium must be familiar to most of our readers : ' It is a work which the critic ' ought to read for its elegance ; the philosopher, for its argu' ments ; and the saint, for its piety.' The Life of Hale is, however, a more finished piece of... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...Memoir itself, Dr. Johnson's encomium must be familiar to most of our readers: ' It is a work which the critic ' ought to read for its elegance; the philosopher, for its argu' ments; and the saint, for its piety. ' 1 The Life of Hale is, however, a more finished piece... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1082 pages
...Ib80. 8vo. 4s. First edition, with a portrait of the Earl by R. White. Dent, pt. i. 305, U. • ТЫ« the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.' — Wr. Johimm. Reprinted in the sixth volumeof Wordsworth's Kcclesiastical Biography and very frequently... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 pages
...libertine. An account of the whole affair was published by Dr Burnet in 1681, which, Dr Johnson says, " the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." During the time of the inquiry into the popish plot, Charles seems to have been softened down considerably,... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
