Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of the Reformed Churches, and of Sects and Sectaries, Volume 1J. Knight and H. Lacey, 1825 - Anecdotes |
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... told by Lord Ches- terfield that he might certainly raise one hun- dred thousand pounds by fines , he consulted Mrs. Berkeley and then refused it . On that oc- casion the bishop said to Mrs. B. " I desire to " add one more to the list ...
... told by Lord Ches- terfield that he might certainly raise one hun- dred thousand pounds by fines , he consulted Mrs. Berkeley and then refused it . On that oc- casion the bishop said to Mrs. B. " I desire to " add one more to the list ...
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... told the noble owner , that the flames of his houses were a sweet - smelling savour in the sight of the Lord ; supposing that his Lord- ship suffered for righteousness sake . ZEAL FOR THE CHURCH . Charlemagne allowed himself to be ...
... told the noble owner , that the flames of his houses were a sweet - smelling savour in the sight of the Lord ; supposing that his Lord- ship suffered for righteousness sake . ZEAL FOR THE CHURCH . Charlemagne allowed himself to be ...
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... told them all that the Lord had said unto him , Well done good and faithful servant ! BISHOP ANDREWS . " My Lords , cannot I take my subjects ' money " when I want it , without the formality of par- " liament ? " said James the first to ...
... told them all that the Lord had said unto him , Well done good and faithful servant ! BISHOP ANDREWS . " My Lords , cannot I take my subjects ' money " when I want it , without the formality of par- " liament ? " said James the first to ...
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... told in the life of Bishop Bull that the lodgings he , when a parochial clergyman , had taken in his parish were contiguous to a powder mill . After he had been there for several months , ' Mr. Morgan , a gentleman of the parish , and ...
... told in the life of Bishop Bull that the lodgings he , when a parochial clergyman , had taken in his parish were contiguous to a powder mill . After he had been there for several months , ' Mr. Morgan , a gentleman of the parish , and ...
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... told such truths to princes as are never now told to them ) which have been related of celebrated court fools . The following is said to have occasioned its author a long imprisonment , if not life itself , Archbishop Laud , the ...
... told such truths to princes as are never now told to them ) which have been related of celebrated court fools . The following is said to have occasioned its author a long imprisonment , if not life itself , Archbishop Laud , the ...
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Page 112 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Page 189 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is ? I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese...
Page 103 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 201 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 64 - The bishop, in reply, with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude attack, concluding thus: "Since the noble lord hath discovered in our manners such a similitude, I am well content to be compared to the prophet Balaam ; but, my lords, I am at a loss how to make out the other part of the parallel: I am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but his lordship.
Page 58 - Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery, that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the rage of a Pagan tyrant.
Page 27 - I might say element; but the word is overworn. [Exit. Vio. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool; And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The Quality of persons, and the time; And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art: For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
Page 71 - The ruin of the Pagan religion is described by the sophists as a dreadful and amazing prodigy, which covered the earth with darkness, and restored the ancient dominion of chaos and of night. They relate, in solemn and pathetic strains, that the temples were converted into sepulchres, and that the holy places, which had been adorned by the statues of the gods, were basely polluted by the relics of Christian martyrs. "The monks...
Page 25 - I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 233 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart : and will save such as be of an humble spirit. 19. Great are the troubles of the righteous : but the Lord delivereth him out of all. 20. He keepeth all his bones : so that not one of them is broken.