An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1889 - Great Britain |
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Page 62
... . Doubtless the Church has always been illumined by the martyrdom of saints , and when old Latimer said : ' Be of good comfort , master Ridley , and play the man : We shall this day light such a 62 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK .
... . Doubtless the Church has always been illumined by the martyrdom of saints , and when old Latimer said : ' Be of good comfort , master Ridley , and play the man : We shall this day light such a 62 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK .
Page 77
... ballad , and Peele's chronicle play of ' King Edward I. ' ) whence a faithful West of England corn - shipper would receive them on board his craft and convey them at once over the water , he THE REFORMATION UNDER EDWARD VI . 77.
... ballad , and Peele's chronicle play of ' King Edward I. ' ) whence a faithful West of England corn - shipper would receive them on board his craft and convey them at once over the water , he THE REFORMATION UNDER EDWARD VI . 77.
Page 94
... played with , or than the leaden slugs with which he and Dick Glover brought down their game : so contemptuously did he speak of the debased state of the coin of the realm . Of nothing , however , said my Talking Friend , did he ever ...
... played with , or than the leaden slugs with which he and Dick Glover brought down their game : so contemptuously did he speak of the debased state of the coin of the realm . Of nothing , however , said my Talking Friend , did he ever ...
Page 104
... play- Quanta mea sapientia est , E malis multis malum quod minimum est , id minimum est malum . PLAUT . Stich . i . 2 . I thought , perhaps , that by asking my Talking Friend if Elizabeth ever came to Shrewsbury I might pick up some ...
... play- Quanta mea sapientia est , E malis multis malum quod minimum est , id minimum est malum . PLAUT . Stich . i . 2 . I thought , perhaps , that by asking my Talking Friend if Elizabeth ever came to Shrewsbury I might pick up some ...
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... play- ful rulers of the fairy world : while Churchyard , broken down by age and misfortune , is seriously disposed to represent the same inclemency of weather as a judgment from the Almighty on the offences of mankind . ' Later than ...
... play- ful rulers of the fairy world : while Churchyard , broken down by age and misfortune , is seriously disposed to represent the same inclemency of weather as a judgment from the Almighty on the offences of mankind . ' Later than ...
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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...