 | Mary Milner - 1847 - 244 pages
...burnt, and the ashes thrown into a brook called the Swift. " The Brook," says Fuller, " did convey his ashes into Avon ; Avon, into Severn ; Severn, into the narrow seas ; the seas into the main ocean. Thus are the ashes of Wicliffe the emblem of his doctrine; which doctrine... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...says Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' narrowseas, they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of Wickiifle are the emblem of his doctrine,... | |
 | Protestantism - 1847 - 648 pages
...running hard by. Thus the brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into thf narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wicliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." MASTER AND SERVANT.... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...tells us, " to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, then into the main ocean. And thus thp ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...says Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' is more obscure than the sense that went before it, it must of necessity ma »cas, they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of Wicklifle are the emblem of his doctrine, which... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Christianity and other religions - 1849 - 682 pages
...rivulet, Swift. From Lutterworth, as Fuller beautifully remarks, " this brook conveyed his ashes into the Avon; Avon into Severn; Severn into the narrow seas ; they into the ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the... | |
 | William Rudder - 1850 - 32 pages
...burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighboring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn,...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." — Fuller, vol.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook aven, about the globe of the earth. And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may Wicklifie are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." • If Bacon... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 444 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...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."* — Church History.... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1850 - 654 pages
...taken up and burned, and the ashes cast into the Swift, lo use the language of Fuller, "Thus this brook conveyed his ashes into Avon — Avon into Severn...they into the main ocean — and thus the ashes of Wicklitfe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." Untold are the... | |
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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. 
