 | Religious tract society - 1850 - 560 pages
...the historian Fuller observes, " hath conveyed his ashes into the Avon; the Avon into the Severn; the Severn into the narrow seas; they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliff are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." His successors... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...says Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' 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 is now dispersed all over the world.' The principles... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...says Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' 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 is now dispersed all over the world.' The principles... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 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 disfersed all the world over." — FULLER. —"The... | |
 | 1851 - 508 pages
...departure from this earthly scene. And thus, as Fuller quaintly expresses it, " The brook did convey his ashes into Avon — Avon into Severn — Severn...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." While at Oxford,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1038 pages
...thrown into the Swift. " Thus," as Fuller has ingeniously expressed It, "this brook (the Swift) hat conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon Into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean : and thus fhf asket qf Wycl'jfc are the emblem of kit doctrine, which now it ditpersed all the world over." Lutterworth... | |
 | 1851 - 202 pages
...should say, named the Swift, for " this brook conveyed them into . Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe were the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." CHAPTER XI. THE... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 54 pages
...cast " into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook," he continues, " has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; thus the ashes of Wickliffe are an emblem of his doctrine, which is... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...bones were cast into the brook Swift. ' Thus,' as old Fuller quaintly expresses it, ' this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, then into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now... | |
 | William James Linton - Great Britain - 1852 - 94 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.' Pray thou for... | |
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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. 
