... the state of his soul, whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month and hour of the day it happened ; how it was carried on, and when completed ? The whole examination was summed... The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 193by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
| Andrew Lang - 1890 - 330 pages
...prepared for Death? The Boy, who had been bred up by honest Parents, was frighted out of his wits by the solemnity of the Proceeding, and by the last dreadful...as not being able to go through the Terrors of it." By the year 1705, when Tom Hearne, of St. Edmund's Hall, began to keep his diary, the "honest folk"... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1890 - 312 pages
...carried on, and when completed. The whole Examination was summed up in one short Question, namely, Whether he was prepared for Death ? The Boy, who had...up by honest Parents, was frighted out of his wits by the solemnity of the Proceeding, and by the last dreadful Interrogatory, so that, upon making his... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...carried on, and when completed. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, Whether he was prepared for death? The boy, who had...interrogatory; so that, upon making his escape out of the house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1892 - 100 pages
...carried on, and when completed. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, Whether he was prepared for death. The boy, who had...interrogatory ; so that, upon making his escape out of the house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...carried on, and when completed. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, Whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had...interrogatory; so that, upon making his escape out of the house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able... | |
| George Forrest Browne - 1902 - 312 pages
...happened ? How it was carried on, and how completed ?" Then he suddenly asked, " Was he ready to die ? " " The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was...proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory." He escaped, and declined a second visit. John Arrowsmith, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, had graduated at... | |
| Andrew Lang - Oxford (England) - 1908 - 338 pages
...whole Examination was summed up in one short Question, namely, Whether he was prepared for Death 1 The Boy, who had been bred up by honest Parents, was frighted out of his wits by the solemnity of the Proceeding, and by the last dreadful Interrogatory, so that, upon making his... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1909 - 312 pages
...on, and when completed. The whole Examination was summed up in one short Question, namely, Whether ht was prepared for Death ? The Boy, who had been bred...up by honest Parents, was frighted out of his wits by the solemnity of the Proceeding, and by the last dreadful Interrogatory, so that, upon making his... | |
| Oxford (England). - 1910 - 356 pages
...carried on, and when compleated. The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, Whether he was prepared for Death ? The boy, who had...as not being able to go through the terrors of it. The Spectator, No. 494, Sept. 26, 1712. ' Conanti nihii CONANT was the third and last of the great... | |
| Leighton Pullan - Church history - 1923 - 316 pages
...carried on, and when completed? The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, " Whether he was prepared for death ? " The boy, who...as not being able to go through the terrors of it.' He was afterwards known to the learned as Anthony Henley. — With the Restoration of Charles II the... | |
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