Saints and sinners; or, In church and about it, Band 21868 |
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... thought that nastiness was a mark of sanc- tity , set a fashion which very few would follow . The hirsute St. Angus , perspiring and unwashed , worked for years in his barn , till scattered grain took root and grew on his hairy carcase ...
... thought that nastiness was a mark of sanc- tity , set a fashion which very few would follow . The hirsute St. Angus , perspiring and unwashed , worked for years in his barn , till scattered grain took root and grew on his hairy carcase ...
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... thought the honour far beyond his merits . Whoever presented any object to the abbot , or received from him any- thing , always kissed his hand . In short , no king had more courteous allegiance paid him than a lord abbot in a great ...
... thought the honour far beyond his merits . Whoever presented any object to the abbot , or received from him any- thing , always kissed his hand . In short , no king had more courteous allegiance paid him than a lord abbot in a great ...
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... thought it pleasant to follow the good old Saxon custom . And what fellow would dare to drink too deeply out of a bowl over which a bishop , whose merits made him a saint , had pronounced a benediction and reverently returned thanks ...
... thought it pleasant to follow the good old Saxon custom . And what fellow would dare to drink too deeply out of a bowl over which a bishop , whose merits made him a saint , had pronounced a benediction and reverently returned thanks ...
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... thoughts of home , hawks , and the meadows , their master , the grandson of an old Picard ploughman and ox - driver , used to prick the noble and absent - minded young pages with a goad ! He prodded at the young fellows with cruel ...
... thoughts of home , hawks , and the meadows , their master , the grandson of an old Picard ploughman and ox - driver , used to prick the noble and absent - minded young pages with a goad ! He prodded at the young fellows with cruel ...
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... thought , " that the present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the commons of England . They have been so used to liberty and freedom , and they are so acquainted with the pride and debauchery of the present ...
... thought , " that the present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the commons of England . They have been so used to liberty and freedom , and they are so acquainted with the pride and debauchery of the present ...
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abbot actors Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York Bishop Bishop of Durham Bishop of Ely Bishop of Lincoln called chapel Chapel Royal Charles Christian church clergy clergymen clerical congregation curate death dignity divine Duke duties Earl ecclesiastical England English episcopal fashion feast fellow French friends gentleman Germanites Henry Henry VIII honour HURST AND BLACKETT'S Illustrations incumbent interest John king lady last century Laud less living London looked Lord loved matter minister naval chaplains never Newgate night noble once ordinary parish Peers persons play poor popular pray prayers preach preacher prelate priest prince prison pulpit Puritan Queen rector reign religious remarked reverend royal Sadberge saint says sermon singing slang song sort spirit sport style Sunday thing Thomas à Becket thought tion took Tulchan Tyburn Ulfric vicar writes young
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Seite 245 - Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd, Not half his riches known, and yet despis'd; And we should serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth, And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons, Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight, And strangled with her waste fertility: Th...
Seite 73 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth : and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains, and herb for...
Seite 96 - Tarlton before they would go to the queen, and he was their usher to prepare their advantageous access unto her. In a word, he told the queen more of her faults than most of her chaplains, and cured her melancholy better than all of her physicians. Much of his merriment lay in his very looks and actions, according to the epitaph written upon him : ' Hie situs est cujus poterat vox, actio, vultus, Ex Heraclito reddere Democritum.
Seite 28 - Most of the company gone, and I going, I heard by a gentleman of a sermon that was to be there ; and so I staid to hear it, thinking it serious, till by and by the gentleman told me it was a mockery by one Cornet Bolton, a very gentleman-like man, that behind a chair did pray and preach like a Presbyter Scot, with all the possible imitation in grimaces and voice.
Seite 205 - Sir, there's such coupling at Pancras, that they stand behind one another, as 'twere in a country dance. Ours was the last couple to lead up ; and no hopes appearing of...
Seite 335 - Why, is not the whole world Included in myself? to what use then Are friends and servants ? Say there were a squadron Of pikes, lined through with shot, when I am mounted Upon my injuries, shall I fear to charge them ? No : I'll through the...
Seite 264 - Inde furor vulgo quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, quum solos credat habendos Esse deos quos ipse colit.