Author:George Stanhope

George Stanhope
(1660–1728)

George Stanhope

Works

• 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)
• The Paraphrase and Comment on the Epistles and Gospels (vols. i. and ii. 1705, vol. iii. 1706, vol. iv. 1708)
• A sermon preach'd before the Queen at the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, the xxviith day of June MDCCVI. (1706)
• A sermon preach'd before the Queen in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, November the 5th, 1706 (1707)
• Epictetus: a poem, containing the maxims of that celebrated philosopher, for the government of the passions in the conduct of life. ... To which is added, The Table of Cebes (1709)
• 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

• Epictetus his morals, with Simplicius his comment (1694) (transcription project)
• 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)
• Pious breathings. Being the meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the love of God, Soliloquies and Manual. To which are added, select contemplations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard (1701)
• Parsons his Christian directory, being a treatise of holy resolution. In two parts. Put into modern English (1703)

Works about Stanhope

• "Stanhope, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.