 | Richard Bannatyne - Scotland - 1806 - 574 pages
...was stricken with a kyndof Apoplexia, called by the phisit iones Resolutione, whairby the perfect vse of his tovng was stopped. Heirof did the wicked not...speik. Wharin God within few dayis declared thame 1570 s . October liaris, for he convalescet and so returned to his exercise of preiching at leist vpon the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 574 pages
...on John Knox being at this time struck with apoplexy, ' a bruit [report] went through Scotland and England, that he was become the most deformed creature that ever was seen; that his face was turned awry to his neck; and that he would never preach or speak again.' In... | |
 | John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.) - 1859 - 496 pages
...bowl" to be "broken." "A bruit [report]," says a chronicler of the period, "went through Scotland, and England, that he was become the most deformed creature that ever was seen ; that his face was turned awry to his neck ; and that he would never preach or speak again."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1885 - 426 pages
...on John Knox being at this time struck with apoplexy, ' a bruit [report] went through Scotland and England that he was become the most deformed creature that ever was seen ; that his face was turned awry to his neck ; and that he would never preach or speak again.'... | |
 | Lord Charles John Guthrie Guthrie - 1898 - 172 pages
...was stopped. Hereof did the wicked not a little rejoice. The bruit [report] passed, not only through Scotland, but also to England, that he was become the most deformed creature that ever was seen, and that he would never preach nor yet speak ! Therein God within a few days declared them liars,... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Archaeology - 1899 - 630 pages
...religionism ? It was not so in his lifetime; his secretary tells us " that the bruit passed not only through Scotland but also to England, that he was become the most deformed creature that ever was seen, and that he would never preach nor yet speak." Would there not be anxious enquirers at that house,... | |
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... while as yet there were not only no newspapers, OCT. but no ready means of conveying letters, true intelligence made its way slowly, and the most ridiculous rumours obtained circulation. For example, on John Knox being at this time struck with apoplexy,... 