 Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however,...  The General Biographical Dictionary - עמוד 162מאת Alexander Chalmers - 1812תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 דפים
...accompany old age, and able to say with Addison to any sorrowing relative who may have needed the lesson, " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." We may apply to him, with the alteration of a word or two, what he said in his letter to Sir James... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 דפים
...accompany old age, and able to say with Addison to any sorrowing relative who may have needed the lesson, " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." We may apply to him, with the alteration of a word or two, what he said in his letter to Sir James... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 דפים
...son, a very dissipated young man, and of unsettled religious principles, to his bedside, and said, " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." He breathed his last on the 17th June 1709, forty-seven years old, and leaving one child, a daughter,... | |
 | 1861 - 514 דפים
...Lord Warwick, a young man of irregular life and loose principles. Taking bis hand in his, he said, " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the North aisle of Heury the Seventh's Chapel, in the same grave... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 442 דפים
...had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried: when...last injunctions, told him, " I have sent for you » Spence. as J.TT i rrrsrat em me." What «R~O- nt (i UK lad. I know sot ; be "^ saasJar .eisj- IK... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1867 - 982 דפים
...and when the latter, with great tenderness, requested to receive his last injunctions, Mr. Addison told him, " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." The best edition of his Whole. Works is that of Bishop Hurd (Lond. 1711, 6 vols. 8vo). — Jones, Chr.... | |
 | Plain paths - 1867 - 166 דפים
...death-bed, he sent for his sonin-law, the Earl of Warwick, a wild and profligate youth, and said to him, "I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." Let us see how Christians have died, that so we may be " delivered from the fear of death," through... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 דפים
...Addison died June 17, 1719 : having addressed to the dissolute Earl of Warwick these solemn words : " I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die !" he shortly after expired : "There taught us bow to live, and— oh, too high The price of knowledge... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1869 - 656 דפים
...by sending for him, and saying to him on his arrival, with all the solemnity of a dying utterance, ' I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.' To this Tickell refers in his excellent ' Elegy,' thus :— ' He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1869 - 660 דפים
...by sending for him, and saying to him on his arrival, with all the solemnity of a dying utterance, ' I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.' To this Tickell refers in his excellent ' Elegy,' thus:— Joseph Addison. 123 ' He taught us how to... | |
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