Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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Pagina 19
... Pope Innocent IV . Their books abound with improbabilities . About 1260 , Marco Polo , a Venetian noble- man , travelled into Syria and Persia , and to the country uniformly called in the dark ages Cathay , which proves to be the ...
... Pope Innocent IV . Their books abound with improbabilities . About 1260 , Marco Polo , a Venetian noble- man , travelled into Syria and Persia , and to the country uniformly called in the dark ages Cathay , which proves to be the ...
Pagina 44
... Pope , said that Eng- 6 1 slay . 2wyrcheth , from werke , to worke or fret . 3 inflammable , passionate . 4 ordered , commanded [ to be ] . 5 imagine . 6 easily , capriciously . lishmen were able to do whatsomever they would , and 44 ...
... Pope , said that Eng- 6 1 slay . 2wyrcheth , from werke , to worke or fret . 3 inflammable , passionate . 4 ordered , commanded [ to be ] . 5 imagine . 6 easily , capriciously . lishmen were able to do whatsomever they would , and 44 ...
Pagina 54
... pope , their great patron and abettor . For this he was deprived of the wardenship of his college by the archbishop of Canterbury , who substituted a monk in his place ; upon which he appealed to the pope , who , by way of rebuke for ...
... pope , their great patron and abettor . For this he was deprived of the wardenship of his college by the archbishop of Canterbury , who substituted a monk in his place ; upon which he appealed to the pope , who , by way of rebuke for ...
Pagina 55
... pope Urban V. for the payment of the arrears of the tribute of one thousand marks per annum , imposed upon the country by king John ; and the payment of which had been neglected since the year 1333. Wicliffe seized this opportunity to ...
... pope Urban V. for the payment of the arrears of the tribute of one thousand marks per annum , imposed upon the country by king John ; and the payment of which had been neglected since the year 1333. Wicliffe seized this opportunity to ...
Pagina 56
... pope was Anti - Christ and that Man of Sin of whom St Paul and St. John prophesied ; and proceeded to combat the various superstitious doctrines of the papal church . For this stre- nuous opposition to the pope , he was cited , in 1377 ...
... pope was Anti - Christ and that Man of Sin of whom St Paul and St. John prophesied ; and proceeded to combat the various superstitious doctrines of the papal church . For this stre- nuous opposition to the pope , he was cited , in 1377 ...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... George Burnett Volledige weergave - 1813 |
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Pagina 463 - He had a 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 to Blackheath Field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to preach before the king's majesty now.
Pagina 436 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 464 - 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. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 252 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Pagina 259 - Christian knights; and now I dare say," said Sir Ector, "thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand ; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse ; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Pagina 462 - He will not have it defended by Man, or Man's power, but by His Word only, by the which He hath evermore defended it, and that by a way far above man's power or reason, as all the stories of the Bible make mention.