| Randal Hibbert Alcock - 1876 - 264 páginas
...revolutions, he had learned from thence this truth, which he desired might be thus communicated to posterity : That all is vanity which is not honest ; and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." Evelyn's writings were very numerous and on many subjects, which, as not concerning this work, I do... | |
| Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 páginas
...the well known Evelyn. ' Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, he'learnt (as he himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his...that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety.' Wotton, 1706. The following are also general, partaking, some of them, of the didactic character. The... | |
| John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 páginas
...Resurrection, thro' Faith in Jesus Christ. Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which...here declared — That all is vanity which is not honeit, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety. Of five Sons and three Daughter* born... | |
| Ellen Webley Parry - 1879 - 530 páginas
...his tomb records that, living in an age of extraordinary events, he learnt (as he himself asserted) that '' all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in true piety." Izaak Walton's parents were honest yeomen in the county of Stafford, and he was apprenticed... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...he had learned from thence this truth, which he desired might be 'thus communicated to posterity : v'P Y/ real piety." "His life," remarks Horace Walpole, "which was extended to eighty-six years, was a course... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...revolutions, he had learned from thence this truth, which he desired might be thus communicated to posterity: That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but real piety." " His life," remarks Horace Walpole, " which wae extended to eighty-six years, was a course... | |
| E S. P - 1880 - 594 páginas
...faith in Jesus Christ. Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, he learnt (as lumself asserted) this truth, which, pursuant to his intention,...that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety.' " 1453. Little Difficulties.— When Queen Charlotte, wife of George III., was once visiting her nursery,... | |
| John Stoughton - 1881 - 468 páginas
...an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this truth—which, pursuant to his intention, is here declared—' That all is vanity which is not flattest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety.'" My rule has been to select characters... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 650 páginas
...better than that at Wotton, on John Evelyn. " Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this truth, which,...that there is no solid wisdom, but in real piety." At Winchester cathedral is an odd tablet, 1541, to John Clark, a priest, who seems to have been also... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 604 páginas
...better than that at Wotton, on John Evelyn. " Living in an age of extraordinary events and revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this truth, which,...that there is no solid wisdom, but in real piety." At Winchester cathedral is an odd tablet, 1541, to John Clark, a priest, who seems to have been also... | |
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