An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout & learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent.
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An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout & learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent.
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Whitcombe, William.
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London:: Printed for the author: and are to be sold by Edw. Evets ...,
1689.
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Maxims.
Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout & learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96335.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Preaching and Preachers.
SIR Augustine Nicols, loved plain and profitable Preaching, being wont to say, I know not what you call Preaching, but I like them that come nearest my Conscience. The Speech of Julius Caesar is commonly known: Oportet eim parutarem stantem mori. Which Bishop Jewel alter'd, and ap∣ply'd to himself; Decet Episcopum con∣cionantem stantem mori.
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