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Hooker

 

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Hooker : Laws of ecclesiastical polity

'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound learning" of "Dr Shuckford's Connection".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker : Works

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker : Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie

'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his sake.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Edward Hooker : Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie

'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker : Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity

'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Thence I to my new bookseller's and there bought Hookers "Policy", the new edition, and Dugdale's history of the Inn's of Court, of which there was but a few saved out of the Fire - and Playford's new sketch-book, that hath a great many new fooleries in it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Hooker : unknown

'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. I was familiar with Shakespeare Milton Homer and Virgil Locke Hooker Pope -- I read Homer in the original with delight inexpressible together with Virgil.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Hooker : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Greek Fathers [...] & have of course informed myself in the works generally of our old English divines, Hooker's, Jeremy Taylor's & so forth, I am not by any means a frequent reader of books of theology as such [...] I read the Scriptures every day & in as simple a spirit as I can; thinking as little as possible of the controversies engendered in that great sunshine, & as much as possible of the heat & glory belonging to it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

 

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