It is no unpleasant matter of Speculation to consider the recommendatory Epistles that pass round this Town from Hand to Hand, and the abuse People put upon one another in that kind.
This didactic production possessed many recommendatory qualities; many combinations, modulations and cadences, calculated to create, and to advance the science and taste of a tyro; but it appeared too late.
The viol, less powerful and penetrating than its supplanter, the violin, was not without its recommendatory qualities.
But it does not follow that their recommendatory letters had been signed by Peter, James, and John; and just as little that those letters justified them in their hostility to Paul.
The giving of recommendatory letters is a subject of considerable practical interest.
Persons had come to Corinth in the character of Christian teachers, bringing with them recommendatory letters which secured their standing when they arrived.
I have just been giving a recommendatory letter for you to Mr. Hobart; he is a particular friend of mine, but is Norfolk, and in the world; so you will be civil to him.
The equality of the administration of justice in the different states, has ever been dwelt upon as recommendatory of the new plan of government.
Franklin has given me a pass, and recommendatory letter to the famous Mr. West.
On this account, he, full of liberal ideas, had left his home, and gone to Hayti, with recommendatory letters from bishop Gregoire to President Boyer.
The appearance of the accommodations obliged me to deliver one of my recommendatory letters, and the gentleman to whom it was addressed sent to look out for a lodging for me whilst I partook of his supper.
We also procured here recommendatory letters from an ambassador to the king of Persia.
Purchas also informs us that Sir Thomas Roe, before he left the court of the Great Mogul on his return for England, requested to be favoured with a recommendatory letter from the Mogul to king James.
I was to take with me letters recommendatory to a number of his friends, besides the letter of credit to furnish me with the necessary money for purchasing the press, types, paper, &c.
The Family Instructor; in Three Parts; with a Recommendatory Letter by the Rev.
The bookseller soon procured a recommendatory letter from the Rev.
Footnote 26: Warton prefers Fenton's verses, but in my opinion these lines of Lord Lyttelton's are much superior to all the other recommendatory verses.
And he must have meant by justification without works, what those words ought to mean, acceptance irrespective of our recommendatory conduct.
