 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 936 pages
...companions. His health became undermined by excess and lie 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pages
...Coventry] and Litohfleld concerning a Book [on the History of the Reformation] by Anthony Harmer. 1693. Some Passages of the Life and Death of ... John Earl of Rochester who died 26 July, 1680. 1680 (and many later editions, and German and French translations). The Life... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, John Clarke - 1914 - 274 pages
...expressed in the concluding portion of the Thoughts. Another of Burnet's works about this time was Some passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester. Rochester was, or seemed to be, a brand plucked from the burning through Burnet's labours, first his... | |
 | Frank Karslake - 1915 - 748 pages
...Settlements in N. America in 1759 and 1760, 2nd edn. calf, 1775 (Sc. June 10 ; 98) $ 3.00 Buruet (G.) Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester, 1st edn., port., straight-grained dark blue mor. ex., ge, 1680 (S. July 29 ; 871) Powell, 4s. Burton... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1915 - 478 pages
...Sandwich's likeness to Ld. R. his [great-] grandfather. [' Rochester's book ' was probably Burnet's Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (1680), to which was prefixed Rochester's portrait engraved by R. White.] (The preceding and following... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 1208 pages
...Binding, or paper boards, -js. 6d. Morocco, 2 и. Small 410, Roxburghe binding, 2is. Morocco, £2 ют. Some Passages of the Life and Death of JOHN, EARL OF ROCHESTER. By Bishop BURNET. A Reprint in Facsimile of the Edition of 1680. Antique cloth, ¡s. London : ELLIOT... | |
 | Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 1927 - 512 pages
...with him of religion and morality, and seems to have found Burnet's conversation consolatory. In his Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester, a book of which SamuelJohnson judged that "the critick ought to read it for its elegance, the philosopher... | |
 | 1922 - 914 pages
...to study. His health became undermined by excess, and he died at the age of 32. Bishop Burnet wrote an interesting account of his death under the title of Some Passages in the Life and Death of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1680). His published works include many love... | |
 | John Harold Wilson - 1976 - 332 pages
...362, p. 132; Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher, 1974, p. 185. 8. Gilbert Burnet, Some Passages of the Life and Death of . . . John, Earl of Rochester, 1680, p. 26. 9. Harleian MS. 6913, p. 209. 10. The Spectator, no. 451, August 7, 1712. 11. Letters... | |
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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. 
