The Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, Volume 23

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Chetham society, 1891 - Clergy
 

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Page 352 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 245 - In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stufFd, and other skins Of...
Page 198 - Vol. 5. The Rectors of Manchester, and the Wardens of the Collegiate Church of that Town. By the late Rev. FR RAINES, MA Edited by JE BAILEY, FSA Parti.
Page 198 - Part 2. pp. 201-391. Vol. 3. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories at Chester, with an Appendix of Abstracts of Wills now Lost or Destroyed. Transcribed by the late Rev. GJ PICCOPE, MA Edited by JP EARWAKER, MA, FSA //. x.
Page 197 - Vice-President, and twelve other members, including a Treasurer and Secretary, all of whom shall be elected, the first two at the general meeting next after a vacancy shall occur, and the twelve other members at the general meeting annually. 4. That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three...
Page 231 - God. So perfect is the Christian scheme, 'He that from thence shall take his theme. And time to have it understood, His sermon cannot but be good: If he will needs be preaching stuff, No time indeed is short enough; E'en let him read it like a letter, The sooner it is done, the better.
Page 263 - written and published at the Request of the late and present Officers of the Town of Manchester
Page 234 - P. health, for we had had no dinner; we sat there till Secretary Murray(') came to let us know that the P. was at leisure and had done supper, so we were all introduced and had the honour to kiss his hand; my papa was fetched prisoner to do the same, as was Dr.
Page 367 - His genial and loving disposition, influenced by the " same mind" wh;ch was in his Divine Master, always led him to respect the conscientious scruples of others, and to treat with tenderness those whom he thought were in error. Under his wise and judicious presidency, a high standard of theological and classical culture was raised, and the college well sustains its character and usefulness. No college tutor, perhaps, ever more entirely possessed the happy faculty of winning the confidence and regard...
Page 213 - This gay knight flourished about the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.

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