Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . Doctrine of the Sacraments; treatises on thePopes Supremacy and the Unity of the Church ;and sermons prized for depth and copiousness ofthought, and nervous though unpolished academic, more modern and popular , Barrow was rather fond of antitheses andrhetorical interrogations, and occasionally per-; mitted himself a very homely vernacular word or a 758 Isaac Barrow fantastic c
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . Doctrine of the Sacraments; treatises on thePopes Supremacy and the Unity of the Church ;and sermons prized for depth and copiousness ofthought, and nervous though unpolished academic, more modern and popular , Barrow was rather fond of antitheses andrhetorical interrogations, and occasionally per-; mitted himself a very homely vernacular word or a 758 Isaac Barrow fantastic coinage from Latin. He transcribed hissermons three or four times ; they seldom occupiedless than an hour and a half in delivery. At acharity sermon before the Lord Mayor and alder-men of London, he spoke for three hours and ahalf; and when asked, on coming down from thepulpit, whetlier he was not tired, he replied, Yes,indeed, I began to be weary with standing solong. Of Apparitions. I may adjoin to the former sorts of extraordinaryactions, some other sorts, the consideration of which(although not so directly and immediately) may serveour main design ; those (which tlie general opinion of. ISAAC the Portrait by Claude Le Fevre in the National Portrait Gallery. mankind hath approved, and manifold testimony hathdeclared frequently to happen) which concern appari-tions from another world, as it were, of beings unusual;concerning spirits haunting persons and places (thesediscerned by all senses, and by divers kinds of effects);of which the old world (the ancient poets and historians)did speak so much, and of which all ages have affordedseveral attestations very direct and plain, and havingall advantages imaginable to beget credence ; concerningvisions made unto persons of especial eminency andinfluence (to priests and prophets); concerning presigni-fications of future events by dreams; concerning thepower of enchantments, implying the co-operation ofinvisible powers ;
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