 | Bibliography - 1741 - 482 pages
...Scholar in England ; and he was ufed to ;call him jeftingly, an unfair Preacher, becaufe he exhaufted every Subject, and left no Room for others to come after him. In this Station he had the Interefts of his College entirely at heart, and profecuted them with great... | |
 | 1798 - 992 pages
...more deficient in principle than in talents, remarked of Barrow, " that he was an unfair preacher, because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him." His sermons were in fact not less remarkable for their length than for their excellence. He was once... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...chaplain, he used often to converse with him, and, in his humorous way, to call him an "" unfair preacher," because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. In 1675 he was chosen ViceChancellor of the University; and be omitted no endeavours for the good of... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...chaplain, he used often to converse with him, and, in his humorous way, to call him an " unfair preacher," because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. In 1675, he w:is chosen Vice-Chancellor of the University ; and he omitted no endeavours for the good... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...less ardent, and his manners cool and reserved ; but he never took any notice 'of the subject. DR. BARROW. Charles II. was wont in his humorous way to...discourses, that on the Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor, actually took him up three hours and a half in delivering ! INDEPENDENCE OF THE BAR. So low... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...his manners cool and reserved : but he never took any notice of the subject. DR. BARROW. Charles IL was wont in his humorous way to say of his chaplain,...discourses, that on the Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor, actually took him up three hours and a half in delivering! INDEPENDENCE OF THE BAR. So low... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...cool and reserved ; but he never took any notice of the subject. Charles II. was wont in his humourous way to say of his chaplain, Dr. Barrow, that " he...discourses, that on the Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor, actually took him up three hours and a half in delivering ! INDEPENDENCE OF THE BAR. So low... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...Charlei U. wa» wont in his humorous way to му of his chaplain, Dr. Barrow, that "he was the moat n x x ( t P , $ ˷1; v j~ `]pԡ n (ʻ 0x ( =Lǽ4z O... K dt qdOd ? S z Y@ CEm q`8 2 p )m$G m=0 ] dH hî anything uneaid upon it. One of his best discourses, that on the Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...Charles II. was wont in his humorous way to say of his chaplain, Dr. Barrow-, that " he was the moat unfair preacher in England; because he exhausted every...he got hold of a topic, he never knew how to leave anything unsaid upon it. One of his bost discourses, that on tho Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor,... | |
 | English essays - 1851 - 950 pages
...vacancy."1" Of Barrow, he said that "he was an unfair preacher,"0 because, as it has been explained, he exhausted every subject and left no room for others to come after him ; — but the King's allusion was made somewhat slyly to the extraordinary length as well as to the... | |
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Charles II. was wont in his humorous way to say of his chaplain, Dr. Barrow, that " he was the most unfair preacher in England; because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. 
