 | John Edgar Burton - 1902 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 744 pages
...(1679—81-1714), and his posthumous History of My Own Time (1724-34) ; and to add a particular commendation of Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1681), and of the Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682), a couple of excellent essays in the art... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1903 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1903 - 398 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1904 - 1180 pages
...companions. His health became undermined by excess and he died at the age of thirtytwo. Bishop Burnet wrote an interesting account of his death under the title...Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1681), from which it appears that he sincerely repented his dissolute course. His published works... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1904 - 1176 pages
...companions. His health became undermined by excess and he died at the age of thirtytwo. Bishop Burnet wrote an interesting account of his death under the title of Some Passages of Ню Life and Death of John, A'ari of Rochester (1681), from which it appears that he sincerely repented... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 926 pages
...companions. His health became undermined by excess and he died at the age of thirtytwo. Bishop Burnet wrote an interesting account of his death under the title...Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1681), from which it appears that he sincerely repented his dissolute course. His published works... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 662 pages
...dry, ere its indefatigable author was engaged in fresh labours. The biographical sketch, entitled, Some passages of the Life and Death of ...John.. .earl of Rochester, was written in accordance with the dead man's desire. The cogency of this celebrated tract, which Dr... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 650 pages
...dry, ere its indefatigable author was engaged in fresh labours. The biographical sketch, entitled, Some passages of the Life and Death of ...John. ..earl of Rochester, was written in accordance with the dead man's desire. The cogency of this celebrated tract, which Dr... | |
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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. 
