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Some were for gospel ministers , And some for red - coat seculars , As men most
fit t ' hold forth the word , And wield the one and th ' other sword . BUTLER ' s
Hudibras . TIERE is a handsome parish church in the town of Woodstock , I am
told ...
Some were for gospel ministers , And some for red - coat seculars , As men most
fit t ' hold forth the word , And wield the one and th ' other sword . BUTLER ' s
Hudibras . TIERE is a handsome parish church in the town of Woodstock , I am
told ...
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These dignitaries wore long black cloaks , plaited close at the neck , and , like
peaceful citizens , carried their Bibles and memorandum - books at their girdles ,
instead of knife or sword . This respectable , but least numerous part of the ...
These dignitaries wore long black cloaks , plaited close at the neck , and , like
peaceful citizens , carried their Bibles and memorandum - books at their girdles ,
instead of knife or sword . This respectable , but least numerous part of the ...
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... or minister as their fancy dictated . Meantime the struggle waxed fiercer ; Mr .
Holdenough clamoured for assistance . “ Mr . Mayor of Woodstock , ” he
exclaimed , “ wilt thou be among those wicked magistrates who bear the sword in
vain ?
... or minister as their fancy dictated . Meantime the struggle waxed fiercer ; Mr .
Holdenough clamoured for assistance . “ Mr . Mayor of Woodstock , ” he
exclaimed , “ wilt thou be among those wicked magistrates who bear the sword in
vain ?
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The Independent orator , late prostrate , was now triumphant , and inducting
himself into the pulpit without farther ceremony , he pulled a Bible from his pocket
, and selected his text from the forty - fifth psalm , - - - Gird thy sword upon thy
thigh ...
The Independent orator , late prostrate , was now triumphant , and inducting
himself into the pulpit without farther ceremony , he pulled a Bible from his pocket
, and selected his text from the forty - fifth psalm , - - - Gird thy sword upon thy
thigh ...
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But I can tell you where the sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and
grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for
false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - dd - n - me cavaliers , to cut the
people ...
But I can tell you where the sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and
grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for
false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - dd - n - me cavaliers , to cut the
people ...
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| Title | Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one Volume 1 of Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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