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Article LIFE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN EGERTON, LATE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. ← Page 4 of 4 Article SINGULAR WORDS. Page 1 of 2 →
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Life Of The Right Reverend John Egerton, Late Lord Bishop Of Durham.
Benevolent to man and reverent towards God , he considered himself in the comprehensive view of one bound by the tie of fraternity to all men ; and his whole conduct bespoke him only ambitious , as far as human frailty will permit , of humbly imitating HIM who is the pattern of all . By good works he manifested the sinceri ty of his faith : " True religion" said hein one of his discourses" consists
, , , " in the love of God , and the love of our nei g hbour ; not in an " empty profession of love to God , but in such a love as will manifest " itself by faith , obedience , and adoration ; and in such a love of our ( e neighbour as must prove itself to be undissembled , disinterested , " and productive . of all social virtues . But let us never be un" mindful" continued he" that the first and great duty is the love
, , " of God , or piety ; for it is this which miist give life and spirit to « the performance of every other duty : in fine , it is this which ex-? c . alts our morality into Christianity , and it is Christianity alone which . " can entitle us to a lasting happiness . " Plis health had been declining for many years , and though he was neither so old nor so infirm as to look upon death as a release , he
lived as if he hourly expected it ; striving , ' however , to preserve life by every proper means , valuing the gift , and blessing the GIVER , but resigned at all times to yield it at his will . He considered his dissolution , not with the false pride of a stoic , but with the religious indifference of a Christian philosopher . To the last he retained his faculties , and reviewed the , main transactions and occurrences of his .
life , gratefully acknowled ging what happiness he had experienced , and how good God had been to him : and when the debt came to be paid , he resigned his breath calmly , and without a groan , and with such composure and expressions , as seemed to anticipate , in ardent hope , the possession of a better country , and bespoke that the soul and body had agreed to part only for a timeas friendsto meet in
, , truer and subjimer love . He died ' at his house at Grosvenor-sqtiare , London , on the iSth of January 1787 , and , by his own express desire , was privately interred in St . James ' s Church , under the communion table , near his father .
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DR . I-IINCE , of Cambridge , has in a Diary for this year proposed a question , namely , " There is a word in the English " language , to which if you add a syllable , it ivill make it shorter . " Short is the word required , to which if you add er , it will then be shorter . This is a paradox , for the word , by being made actuall y longer , becomes really shorter . And now , vice versa , to contrast with the above shall
, I name two or three words , which , by being made shorter in one sense , become longer in another . Plague is a word of one syllable ; take away the two first letters , and there will be a word of two syllables remain , by which it appears the ague is four-sixths of the plague : we have three other words of this kind , viz . teague ,. league , and Prague .
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Life Of The Right Reverend John Egerton, Late Lord Bishop Of Durham.
Benevolent to man and reverent towards God , he considered himself in the comprehensive view of one bound by the tie of fraternity to all men ; and his whole conduct bespoke him only ambitious , as far as human frailty will permit , of humbly imitating HIM who is the pattern of all . By good works he manifested the sinceri ty of his faith : " True religion" said hein one of his discourses" consists
, , , " in the love of God , and the love of our nei g hbour ; not in an " empty profession of love to God , but in such a love as will manifest " itself by faith , obedience , and adoration ; and in such a love of our ( e neighbour as must prove itself to be undissembled , disinterested , " and productive . of all social virtues . But let us never be un" mindful" continued he" that the first and great duty is the love
, , " of God , or piety ; for it is this which miist give life and spirit to « the performance of every other duty : in fine , it is this which ex-? c . alts our morality into Christianity , and it is Christianity alone which . " can entitle us to a lasting happiness . " Plis health had been declining for many years , and though he was neither so old nor so infirm as to look upon death as a release , he
lived as if he hourly expected it ; striving , ' however , to preserve life by every proper means , valuing the gift , and blessing the GIVER , but resigned at all times to yield it at his will . He considered his dissolution , not with the false pride of a stoic , but with the religious indifference of a Christian philosopher . To the last he retained his faculties , and reviewed the , main transactions and occurrences of his .
life , gratefully acknowled ging what happiness he had experienced , and how good God had been to him : and when the debt came to be paid , he resigned his breath calmly , and without a groan , and with such composure and expressions , as seemed to anticipate , in ardent hope , the possession of a better country , and bespoke that the soul and body had agreed to part only for a timeas friendsto meet in
, , truer and subjimer love . He died ' at his house at Grosvenor-sqtiare , London , on the iSth of January 1787 , and , by his own express desire , was privately interred in St . James ' s Church , under the communion table , near his father .
Singular Words.
SINGULAR WORDS .
DR . I-IINCE , of Cambridge , has in a Diary for this year proposed a question , namely , " There is a word in the English " language , to which if you add a syllable , it ivill make it shorter . " Short is the word required , to which if you add er , it will then be shorter . This is a paradox , for the word , by being made actuall y longer , becomes really shorter . And now , vice versa , to contrast with the above shall
, I name two or three words , which , by being made shorter in one sense , become longer in another . Plague is a word of one syllable ; take away the two first letters , and there will be a word of two syllables remain , by which it appears the ague is four-sixths of the plague : we have three other words of this kind , viz . teague ,. league , and Prague .