Biographical list of the members of 'the Club of Nobody's friends' [by G.E. Cokayne, hon. V. Gibbs and R.C. Nesbitt].

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Sayfa 82 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Sayfa 128 - Version, with Notes and Introductions." His " Theophilus Anglicanus, or Instruction for the Young Student concerning the Church and our own Branch of it," is a well-known manual of Anglican theology and ecclesiastical history, interpreted and illustrated according to the Bishop's rigid standard of orthodoxy. His controversial works are too numerous to mention. He was a staunch opponent of Rome, and yet no Evangelical.
Sayfa 128 - Babylon, or the question examined, Is the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Apocalypse ? ' is the title of one of his controversial treatises, and it sufficiently indicates his dominant ecclesiastical bias. He manifested a keen interest in the Old Catholic movement, and took part in the proceedings of the Old Catholic Congress which was held at Cologne in 1872.
Sayfa 168 - ... that thorough enjoyment of all that was good and racy in wit or humour, this has passed away with him. So beautiful and consistent a life in its kind we shall hardly see again. He was preserved to our time to show us of a later age a perfect specimen of the old-fashioned, high-bred, highly cultivated country gentleman ; and a finer type of Englishman it is hardly possible to conceive.
Sayfa 3 - Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM STEVENS, Late of Broad-street, in the City of London, Hosier, And many years Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty ; Whose remains, by his own desire, were deposited near this Church, Which he delighted to frequent as the place of his devotion, And which he repaired and adorned by his munificence. Educated, and during his whole life engaged, in trade., He yet found time to enrich his mind With English, French, Latin, Greek, and especially Hebrew Literature...
Sayfa 161 - ... all his clergy, except the extreme men of either side and party. Whatever he undertook he did with grace and ease, and, above all, with a heartiness which proved contagious. As a platform orator he has rarely been equalled ; an anecdote from his lips gained a point which its author could not give it. He was indeed, in its best sense, a " many-sided " man ; and into his active career many careers, so to speak, were crowded together. He was indefatigable in work, and never knew what it was to be...
Sayfa 70 - The Love of our Country," which was printed and published. His early years were spent in assisting his father in the conduct of his private school, then carried on with much success at Greenwich, and which was wholly relinquished to his charge in 1814. From these duties he retired in 1835; and on the 9th of April, 1836, he received from a body of gentlemen who had been his pupils, an elegant and costly candelabrum bearing this pithy and gratifying inscription — "CABOLO PAKE BUENBT, STP, olim Discipuli...
Sayfa 117 - ... not more admired for his ability than he was honoured for his integrity. He was frequently elected upon the Council of the College of Physicians from the year 1836, and ultimately filled the office of President. He was Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow.and afterwards Honorary Fellow, of St. John's College, Cambridge, a member of the Council of King's College, and of the General Medical Council, an Honorary LL.D. of Cambridge and DCL of Oxford, an Honorary...
Sayfa 4 - With unbounded good-will and well-regulated beneficence towards men, And illustrating his Christian Profession by his own consistent example, He became the blessed means, by divine grace, Of winning many to the ways of righteousness. He finished his probation, and entered into his rest, On the 7th day of February, AD 1807, In the 75th year of his age.
Sayfa 14 - In 1870 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford, on the recommendation of his brother professor, Sir Frederick A.

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