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    Augustus Montague Toplady /ˈtɒpləˌdiː/ (4 November 1740 – 11 August 1778) was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of...
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    a popular Christian hymn written by the Reformed Anglican minister Augustus Toplady. The first four lines for the first version of the first verse were...
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    geology has led to a diversity of plant life. According to legend Augustus Montague Toplady was inspired to write the hymn Rock of Ages while sheltering under...
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    eventually hops, a key ingredient of beer. The Anglican divine, Augustus Montague Toplady, composer of the hymn Rock of Ages (1763, at Blagston) was born...
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  • of well-known hymns, including Augustus Montague Toplady's Rock of Ages, first appeared in the Gospel Magazine. Toplady, sponsored by Selina Hastings,...
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  • Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson Francis Thompson James Thomson Augustus Montague Toplady Thomas Traherne Richard Chenevix Trench Henry Vaughan Edmund Waller...
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  • "Rock of Ages" (Christian hymn), a 1763 hymn by the Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady "Rock of Ages" (Hanukkah hymn), a translation of the Jewish liturgical...
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  • Descending, text by Charles Wesley Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, text by Augustus Montague Toplady King also found the following six hymns in 49 of the 52 hymnals:...
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    Hervey. In the 1770s a sharp debate occurred between Wesley and Augustus Montague Toplady. Wesley was a champion of the teaching of Arminius, defending...
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  • "Money Musk" Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta Giovanni Paisiello...
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    refer to the Mendips or sites on the hills. According to legend, Augustus Montague Toplady was inspired to write the words of the hymn "Rock of Ages" while...
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  • House. The Grange, Broadhembury, long owned by the Drewe family. Augustus Montague Toplady , author of the hymn 'Rock of Ages', was vicar of Broadhembury...
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  • Thomas" (Larry Sparks, Ralph Stanley) - 2:02 "Rock of Ages" (Augustus Montague Toplady, Thomas Hastings) - 2:36 "In the Sweet By and By" (Sanford F....
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  • Fowler Ronnie Rogers When It All Goes South 2001 "Rock of Ages" Augustus Montague Toplady Thomas Hastings Songs of Inspiration 2006 "Rockin' Around the...
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  • the Letters ... Relative to the Execution of Doyle and Valine Augustus Montague Toplady – A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley Voltaire – Épître à l'Auteur...
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    Tennis, football, cricket and rugby clubs John Langhorne (1735–79) Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–78) Sir William Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke (1830...
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  • Gilbert Cooper – Ver-Vert (transl.) William Mason – Caractacus Augustus Montague Toplady – Poems on Sacred Subjects Franz Aepinus – Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis...
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  • The Gospel Magazine, immediately before and immediately after Augustus Montague Toplady. He also wrote several hymns, including "The Christian Surrender"...
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  • politician Rebecca Tope (living), crime writer and journalist Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), theologian and hymnist Angela Topping (born 1954)...
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  • (died 1802) October 7 – Samuel Webbe (died 1816) November 4 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (died 1778) December – Elisabeth Olin, operatic soprano...
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  • Meditations, Moral, Divine and Miscellaneous John Scott, Amwell Augustus Montague Toplady, Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship William Whitehead...
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    her life Isaac Watts, Mary, Lady Abney, Philip Doddridge, and Augustus Montague Toplady were among her friends. Lady Anne Erskine (eldest daughter of...
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    Rock Jonathan Richardson – Morning Thoughts John Scott – Amwell Augustus Montague Toplady – Psalms and Hymns William Whitehead – Variety Gaspar Melchor...
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  • (1726–1792) Samuel Stennett (1727–1795) William Cowper (1731–1800) Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778) John Rippon (1751–1836) John Leland (1754–1841) John...
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  • Anglican priest and hymn writer Augustus Montague Toplady, both believed in the resurrection of animals, while Toplady regarded brutality towards animals...
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  • Scottish diarist, writer and autobiographer (died 1795) November 4 – Augustus Montague Toplady, English poet, theologian and hymnist (died 1778) November 21...
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  • m. John Dillon) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner "Rock of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting) – J. W. Myers on Berliner "'Round His Bed I'm...
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  • 5 – Thomas Linley the younger, composer, aged 22 August 14 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (b. 1740) August 24 – Johannes Ringk, organist, composer...
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  • (1735–1779) became the curate at Blagdon around the time that Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778) was the priest. Geologist William Smith (1769–1839)...
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    Banks (1773) Chryses invoking the Vengeance of Apollo (1774) Augustus Montague Toplady (1777) Carlini, Bartolozzi and Cipriani (1778) Mrs Elizabeth Carnac...
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