Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volume 1George Burnett 1807 |
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... clergy , betrayed an indecent joy at his death , and the council of Constance , thirty years after , de- creed that his bones should be taken up and thrown on a dunghill - an act of impotent ma lice , which was not executed till 1428 ...
... clergy , betrayed an indecent joy at his death , and the council of Constance , thirty years after , de- creed that his bones should be taken up and thrown on a dunghill - an act of impotent ma lice , which was not executed till 1428 ...
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... clergy of his time , he assures us ; — That there were many unable curates that kunnen not the ten commandments , ne read their sauter , ne understond a verse of it . Nay , that it was then no- 1 doubtful . 2 * appropriated . 3 knew ...
... clergy of his time , he assures us ; — That there were many unable curates that kunnen not the ten commandments , ne read their sauter , ne understond a verse of it . Nay , that it was then no- 1 doubtful . 2 * appropriated . 3 knew ...
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... clergy , both regular and secular ; but no part of his conduct excited their rancour so much , as his undertaking to translate the scriptures into English . They affirmed , “ It is heresy to speak of the holy scripture in English ...
... clergy , both regular and secular ; but no part of his conduct excited their rancour so much , as his undertaking to translate the scriptures into English . They affirmed , “ It is heresy to speak of the holy scripture in English ...
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... clergy and doctors of the church , that they might minister it to thé laity and weaker sort , according to the exigency of times , and their several occasions . So that by this means , the Gospel is made vulgar , and laid more open to ...
... clergy and doctors of the church , that they might minister it to thé laity and weaker sort , according to the exigency of times , and their several occasions . So that by this means , the Gospel is made vulgar , and laid more open to ...
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... clergy was so great , that in the 13th of Richard II . a bill was brought into the House of Lords for suppressing it ; but was opposed in so firm a tone by the renowned duke of Lancaster , that it was thrown out . Some of the followers ...
... clergy was so great , that in the 13th of Richard II . a bill was brought into the House of Lords for suppressing it ; but was opposed in so firm a tone by the renowned duke of Lancaster , that it was thrown out . Some of the followers ...
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Page 75 - He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Page 463 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 463 - He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Page 259 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 463 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor.
Page 469 - Sir, quoth he, and I may remember the building of Tenterton steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that...
Page 252 - I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour; and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke...
Page 464 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 148 - And in the sight of all his men he was drawn out of the great ship into the boat, and there was an axe and a stock ; and one of the lewdest of the ship bade him lay down his head, and he should be fairly ferd (dealt) with, and die on a sword ; and took a rusty sword and smote off his head within half a dozen strokes...
Page 466 - Master Latimer, do you not think on your conscience, that you have been suspected of heresy? A subtle question, a very subtle question. There was no holding of peace would serve. To hold my peace had been to grant myself faulty. To answer it was every way full of danger. But God, which alway...