 Judgments; and the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations: Seeker, the Jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, began the mode. He heard the women were...  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford - Seite 201von Horace Walpole - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations...fear and trembling. But what is more astonishing, Sherlock,1 who has much better sense, and much less of the Popish confessor, has been running a race... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations...fear and trembling. But what is more astonishing, Sherlock,1 who has much better sense, and much less of the Popish confessor, has been running a race... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls ol a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations;...Offerings, he set himself to advise them to await God s 549 food pleasure in fear and trembling. But what is more astonishing, herlock,* who has much... | |
 | 1841 - 534 Seiten
...well be credited ; but not that " Seeker, the Jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, set the mode ; " or that " he heard the women were all going out of town to avoid...await God's good pleasure in fear and trembling," (ii. 326). His attacks on Seeker are renewed at page 356 : " The Bishop of Oxford has laid aside his... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 546 Seiten
...clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long' season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations...avoid the next shock ; and so, for fear of losing nis Easter offerings, he set himself to advise them to await God's food pleasure in fear and trembling.... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 520 Seiten
...and in a watchman's voice cried, ' Past four o'clock, and a dreadful earthquake.' "— Ib. 354. 1 " There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations. Seeker, the Jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, begun the mode. He heard the women were all going out of town to avoid the next shock : and so, for... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations....women were all going out of town to avoid the next shook ; and so, for fear of losing his Easter offerings, he set himself to advise them to await God's... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of u long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations....trembling. But what is more astonishing, Sherlock, who has much better sense, and much less of the popish confessor, has been running a race with him... | |
 | 1857 - 396 Seiten
...Once, on an occasion of an expected earthquake, Seeker, the Jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, heard that the women were all going out of town to avoid the next shocks; for fear of losing his Easter offerings, he earnestly advised his parishioners to await God's... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 Seiten
...the clergy, who have had no windfalls of a long season, have driven horse and foot into this opinion. There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations....trembling. But what is more astonishing, Sherlock, who has much better sense, and much less of the Popish confessor, has been running a race with him... | |
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