 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 580 pages
...short reply, which ended with these remarkable words : " I confess that I am unwilling to be overcome. I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ." As these words, which of themselves imply all that we would impute, were uttered, the floor and its... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 332 pages
...yield reproached Dunstan, who thereupon cried out, ' I confess, I am unwilling to be overcome. — I commit the cause of the Church to the decision of Christ.'" When I have brought these facts to your notice, you will possibly confess that Dunstan may be suspected... | |
 | Charles Butler - Great Britain - 1825 - 788 pages
...yield, reproached Dun" stan, who thereupon cried out, ' I confess I am " unwilling to be overcome ; I commit the cause " of the Church to the decision of Christ.' " What can You mean ? — The whole of this passage You will find inserted, almost verbatim, in the... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - England - 1826 - 462 pages
...another synod remaining opposed to the counsel of Dunstan, he exclaimed, "I am unwilling to be overcome, I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ;" when immediately the floor of the hall sank, and a great part of the company was severely bruised or... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - England - 1826 - 450 pages
...another synod remaining opposed to the counsel of Dunstan, he exclaimed, "I am unwilling to be overcome, I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ;" when immediately the floor of the hall sank, and a great part of the company was severely bruised or... | |
 | Charles Butler - Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - 1826 - 346 pages
...yield, reproached Dun" stan, who thereupon cried out, ' I confess I am " unwilling to be overcome; I commit the cause " of the Church to the decision of Christ.'" What can You mean ? The whole of this passage You will find inserted, almost verbatim, in the very... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Europe - 1834 - 368 pages
...ended with these remarkable words : — ' I confess that I am unwilling that you should conquer : — I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ.' As these words, which lead the mind to the most unfavourable inferences, were uttered, the floor and... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...reproaches, which they threw upon him, with these words : " I confess that I am unwilling to be overcome ; I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ." He had scarcely ended, when the floor of the apartment gave way, and all who had taken part in the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1836 - 626 pages
...reply, which ended with these remarkable words: "I confess that I am unwilling that you should conquer. I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ." As these words, which lead the mind to the most unfavourable inferences, were uttered, the floor and... | |
 | 1857 - 588 pages
...England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, vol. ii., p. 146. " I confess that I am unwilling to be overcome. I commit the cause of the Church to the decision of Christ." No ¡sooner were they uttered, than the floor gave way, and all except Dunstan were precipitated into... | |
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Dunstan, he gave a short reply, which ended with these remarkable words: "I confess that I am unwilling that you should conquer. I commit the cause of the church to the decision of Christ. 
