The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... church . The last literary performance of Bede was a letter to the Archbishop of York , which contains a very singular and inter- esting account of the state of the church at that time , and which was finished by an amanuensis at the ...
... church . The last literary performance of Bede was a letter to the Archbishop of York , which contains a very singular and inter- esting account of the state of the church at that time , and which was finished by an amanuensis at the ...
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... church ; or , if he could not effect this , to propose such expedients as might break the power of Antichrist , and retard his progress . For he appears to have been firmly persuaded that the church would soon be reformed , either by ...
... church ; or , if he could not effect this , to propose such expedients as might break the power of Antichrist , and retard his progress . For he appears to have been firmly persuaded that the church would soon be reformed , either by ...
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... Church of Rome , began to undisguisedly manifest themselves , he was stren- uously opposed by a number of monks who had gained admission to the college , and who wished a head of their own order . Wickliffe and his secular associates ...
... Church of Rome , began to undisguisedly manifest themselves , he was stren- uously opposed by a number of monks who had gained admission to the college , and who wished a head of their own order . Wickliffe and his secular associates ...
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... church ; and to the people , to whom the tax of Peter- pence and other impositions of the Church of Rome were very burthensome . Wickliffe's doctrines having now become a matter of public notoriety , Simon Sudbury , who had recently ...
... church ; and to the people , to whom the tax of Peter- pence and other impositions of the Church of Rome were very burthensome . Wickliffe's doctrines having now become a matter of public notoriety , Simon Sudbury , who had recently ...
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... church historian , in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity , ' hath 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 ...
... church historian , in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity , ' hath 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 ...
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