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Page 97 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into, Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 46 - When he came thither, some Bonders had already arrived, and they saw a great crowd coming along, and bearing among them a huge man's image, glancing with gold and silver. When the Bonders who were at the Thing saw it, they started up, and bowed themselves down before...
Page 87 - Its rectangular beatitudes, and spherical benevolences, — theology of universal indulgence, and jurisprudence which will hang no rogues, mean, one and all of them, in the root, incapacity of discerning, or refusal to discern, worth and unworth in anything, and least of all in man ; whereas Nature and Heaven command you, at your peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man. Your main problem is that ancient and trite one, " Who is best man ? " and the Fates forgive...
Page 118 - ... pre-eminence, and that there should be, no superiority in that behalf, to the ground goes both the croces. And then began no little fray, but yet a merry game ; for rockets...
Page 47 - When he came there some bonders had already arrived, and they saw a great crowd coming along, and bearing among them a huge man's image glancing with gold and silver. When the bonders who were at the Thing saw it they started up, and bowed themselves down before the ugly idol. Thereupon it was set down upon the Thing-field; and on the one side of it sat the bonders, and on the other the king and his people.
Page 87 - and the Fates forgive much, — forgive the wildest, fiercest, cruellest experiments, — if fairly made for the determination of that. Theft and bloodguiltiness are not pleasing in their sight ; yet the favouring powers of the spiritual and material world will confirm to you your stolen goods ; and their noblest voices applaud the lifting of your spear, and rehearse the sculpture of your shield, if only your robbing and slaying have been in fair arbitrement of that question,
Page 96 - But now such the spleen of the Council of Constance, as they not only cursed his memory as dying an obstinate heretic, but ordered that his bones (with this charitable caution, — if it...
Page 116 - ... our eyes saw them performed. In the end he said, ' I have forgotten myself and the matter that I should have entreated ; but let these my last words as concerning public preaching, remain in your minds, till that God send you new comfort.' Thereafter he made a short paraphrase upon the Second Table of the Law, with an exhortation to patience, to the fear of God, and unto the works of mercy ; and so put end, as it were, making his last testament.
Page 117 - and therefore aught to give place to no man : the power of • the Cardinal was but begged from Rome, and appertained ' but to his own person, and not to his bishoprick; for it might • be that his successor should not be Cardinal.
Page 48 - ... upon stock or stone. Here are now two conditions between us to choose upon,— either accept Christianity, or fight this very day; and the victory be to them to whom the God we worship gives it.