 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 דפים
...for its piety.' In Johnson's answer to Boswell we have a play on the title of this work, which is, Some passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester. * In the passages from Johnson's Life of Prior, quoted ante, ii. 78, note 3, may be found an explanation... | |
 | William Ralph Hall Caine - 1892 - 320 דפים
...the fund of life. About this time he came under the influence of Dr. Burnet, who afterwards wrote, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester. A lingering illness terminated in his death in 1680. He was a man of considerable attainments, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 דפים
...That he still holds a place in English literature is due to his biographical and historical writings. Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, should not perhaps be termed a biography, since it passes very rapidly over Rochester's career to dwell... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 דפים
...That he still holds a place in English literature is due to his biographical and historical writings. Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, should not perhaps be termed a biography, since it passes very rapidly over Rochester's career to dwell... | |
 | 1897 - 524 דפים
...illustribus scriptarum. Ltidae, 1727. Sq. Q. 5 v. pi. Burnet, Gilbert, bp. of Salisbury. 1643-1715. Some passages of the life and death of John, earl of Rochester ; reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1680, with an introductory preface by Lord Ronald Gower.... | |
 | Columbia University. Libraries - 1897 - 74 דפים
...illustribus scriptarum. Leidae, 1727. Sq. Q. 5 v. pi. Burnet, Gilbert, bp. of Salisbury. 1643-1715. Some passages of the life and death of John, earl of Rochester ; reprinted in facsimile from the edition of 1680, with an introductory preface by Lord Ronald Gower.... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - 1902 - 388 דפים
...use of it. "The account of these salutary consequences," says Johnson, " is given by 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... | |
 | John Edgar Burton - 1902 - 296 דפים
...Religion, 1702; Discourse on Drinking to the Memory of the Dead, Dublin, 1714; A second part of same, 1715; Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, 1727; etc. In 2 vols. 8vo and 18mo, calf and half calf. 2656 TRACTS. The Repentance and Happy Death... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1903 - 398 דפים
...witness to her power also to convert. Few books have made more impression on their generation than Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, written by his own direction on his ^j^^ death-bed, which traces the slow change of the most dissolute of Charles... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1903 - 402 דפים
...witness to her power also to convert. Few books have made more impression on their generation than Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, written by his own direction on his *sx£'l>e%£. death-bed, which traces the slow change of the most dissolute... | |
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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. 
