Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... church , among Christian men . And then dured Christendom beyond the sea . All Turkey , Syria , Tatary , Jerusalem , Palestine , Arabia , Halappu , and all the land of Egypt . So it befel that this em- peror came , with a Christian ...
... church , among Christian men . And then dured Christendom beyond the sea . All Turkey , Syria , Tatary , Jerusalem , Palestine , Arabia , Halappu , and all the land of Egypt . So it befel that this em- peror came , with a Christian ...
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... church ; and his name was John . And so evermore sithen , he is clept Prester John . I shall close my extracts from this author with his concluding paragraph . in I John Mandeville , knight abovesaid , ( although I be unworthy , ) that ...
... church ; and his name was John . And so evermore sithen , he is clept Prester John . I shall close my extracts from this author with his concluding paragraph . in I John Mandeville , knight abovesaid , ( although I be unworthy , ) that ...
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... church , a sort of patera , brought from Egypt , and which , not many years since , was in the hands of an antiquary in London . Such was the taste for marvellous his- tories in those times of wonderment and ignorance , that Gyraldus ...
... church , a sort of patera , brought from Egypt , and which , not many years since , was in the hands of an antiquary in London . Such was the taste for marvellous his- tories in those times of wonderment and ignorance , that Gyraldus ...
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... church of Rome , with other ecclesiastical corruptions . In the year 1365 , we find the name of Wic- liffe first mentioned in the annals of our coun- try . It was on occasion of the demand of pope Urban V. for the payment of the arrears ...
... church of Rome , with other ecclesiastical corruptions . In the year 1365 , we find the name of Wic- liffe first mentioned in the annals of our coun- try . It was on occasion of the demand of pope Urban V. for the payment of the arrears ...
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... church of Rome ; and on his return the year following , he began to expose the whole system of the Romish hierarchy ; openly declaring that the pope was Anti - Christ and that Man of Sin of whom St Paul and St. John prophesied ; and ...
... church of Rome ; and on his return the year following , he began to expose the whole system of the Romish hierarchy ; openly declaring that the pope was Anti - Christ and that Man of Sin of whom St Paul and St. John prophesied ; and ...
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Сторінка 428 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Сторінка 257 - Christian knights; and now I dare say,' said Sir Ector, 'thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Сторінка 455 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor...
Сторінка 257 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Сторінка 455 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Сторінка 145 - And last of all, as heartily and as lovingly as ever father blessed his child in earth, I give you the blessing of Our Lord and of me, which of his infinite mercy increase you in all virtue and good living; and that your blood may by his grace from kindred to kindred multiply in this earth to his service, in such wise as after the departing from this wretched world here, ye and they may glorify him eternally amongst his angels in heaven. Written of mine hand, The day of my departing fro this land....
Сторінка 456 - ... that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours. And some alms he gave to the poor, and all this did he of the said farm.
Сторінка 456 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Сторінка 246 - AFTER that I had accomplished and finished divers histories, as well of contemplation as of other historial and worldly acts of great conquerors and princes, and also certain books of ensamples and doctrine, many noble and divers gentlemen of this realm of England came and demanded...
Сторінка 50 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not.