George Stanhope
(1660–1728)

English cleric; Dean of Canterbury, Royal Chaplain, writer of sermons, and translator

George Stanhope

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  • The law not destroyed but established by the Gospel. A sermon preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, April the 7th. 1701. (1701)
  • The duty of witnesses. A sermon, preach'd at the summer-assizes holden at Maidstone in Kent, ... August the 5th, 1701. (1701)
  • A sermon preach'd before the Queen at the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, the xxviith day of June MDCCVI. (1706)
  • The sin and folly of immoderate carefulness. A sermon preached before the Queen, in the royal chapel at Windsor-Castle, November the 2d. 1712. (1712)
  • Nothing impracticable required of Christians. A sermon preach'd before the Queen, in the royal-chapel at Windsor-castle, October the 18th. 1713. (1713)
  • The early conversion of islanders a wise expedient for propagating Christianity. A sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their anniversary meeting in the parish-church of St. Mary-le-Bow; on Friday the 19th of Feb. 1713-14. (1714)

Translations edit

  • Epictetus his morals, with Simplicius his comment (1694)
  • Of wisdom. Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. (1697)
  • The Christian pattern: or, a treatise of the imitation of Jesus Christ. In four books. Written originally in Latin by Thomas à Kempis. Now Render'd into English (1698)

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