An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... added , ' You will very well recollect how our townsman Thomas Churchyard , in the voice of a cardinal , and in a curious discourse , told of Wolsey's rise into great authority and government ; his manner of life , pomp , and dignity ...
... added , ' You will very well recollect how our townsman Thomas Churchyard , in the voice of a cardinal , and in a curious discourse , told of Wolsey's rise into great authority and government ; his manner of life , pomp , and dignity ...
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... added slyly , Mayfool , ' words which presently reminded me of a passage in the Historians of Shrewsbury , which I will transcribe . It is in an account of the minstrels , players , sports , and pastimes of the day . ' Least of all , in ...
... added slyly , Mayfool , ' words which presently reminded me of a passage in the Historians of Shrewsbury , which I will transcribe . It is in an account of the minstrels , players , sports , and pastimes of the day . ' Least of all , in ...
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... added from Knight's ' Life of Dean Colet ' : ' I know not whether it has been observed that the system of religion in the beginning of the Reforma- tion , drawn up by the Convocation , and approved by Henry VIII . , was called the ...
... added from Knight's ' Life of Dean Colet ' : ' I know not whether it has been observed that the system of religion in the beginning of the Reforma- tion , drawn up by the Convocation , and approved by Henry VIII . , was called the ...
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... added from a later page , and with reference to the passage of Burnet above quoted : ' Shrewsbury was to have become the seat of a bishop , who was to have been endowed with the revenue of the abbey , and to have com- prised in his ...
... added from a later page , and with reference to the passage of Burnet above quoted : ' Shrewsbury was to have become the seat of a bishop , who was to have been endowed with the revenue of the abbey , and to have com- prised in his ...
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... adding that if I would refer to ancient documents with which he knew I was sufficiently familiar , I should find that in those days more was done for wine than for beer , though as early as 1536 there was a noted brewery in the town at ...
... adding that if I would refer to ancient documents with which he knew I was sufficiently familiar , I should find that in those days more was done for wine than for beer , though as early as 1536 there was a noted brewery in the town at ...
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Page 296 - We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Page 237 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 86 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 235 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 352 - I do not know what I may appear to the World ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 76 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 111 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 323 - A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England.
Page 197 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Page 255 - ... a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matter of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...