Remarks on English churches, and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral monuments subservient to pious and Christian uses |
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... periods , nothing strikes us more than the ample space , allotted to the several portions of the building , or the minute and painful labour , which was bestowed upon every part of the edifice , whether the material was wood or stone ...
... periods , nothing strikes us more than the ample space , allotted to the several portions of the building , or the minute and painful labour , which was bestowed upon every part of the edifice , whether the material was wood or stone ...
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... period , with that ruthless violence , to which Churches were subjected in a subsequent cen- tury . A short statement will shew , that the spoliation at the two periods differed widely both in kind and degree . The object of the ...
... period , with that ruthless violence , to which Churches were subjected in a subsequent cen- tury . A short statement will shew , that the spoliation at the two periods differed widely both in kind and degree . The object of the ...
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... period y . • Dissertation on the modern style of altering ancient Cathedrals , ( 1811 ) p . 21. Another excellent Antiquary of the same Communion has expressed his gratitude to our Church for enjoining , " that the Chancels shall remain ...
... period y . • Dissertation on the modern style of altering ancient Cathedrals , ( 1811 ) p . 21. Another excellent Antiquary of the same Communion has expressed his gratitude to our Church for enjoining , " that the Chancels shall remain ...
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... period has left too many traces , and the history of almost every Church in the land records acts of ferocious violence , disgraceful to civilized beings . Great , indeed , must have been the madness of the people , when every species ...
... period has left too many traces , and the history of almost every Church in the land records acts of ferocious violence , disgraceful to civilized beings . Great , indeed , must have been the madness of the people , when every species ...
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... period , and of the violence with which they were then swept away . " At Sudbury , " for in- stance , " we brake down ten mighty great angels in glass ; in all eighty . At Allhallows we brake about twenty superstitious pictures and took ...
... period , and of the violence with which they were then swept away . " At Sudbury , " for in- stance , " we brake down ten mighty great angels in glass ; in all eighty . At Allhallows we brake about twenty superstitious pictures and took ...
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Page 40 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind.
Page 129 - The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
Page 26 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; ' In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, graced with scars and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
Page 119 - I evidently saw that the public neglect of God's service in the outward face of it, and the nasty lying of many places dedicated to that service, had almost cast a damp upon the true and inward worship of God, which while we live in the body, needs external helps, and all little enough to keep it in any vigour.
Page 129 - And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.
Page 79 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 47 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 66 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Page 81 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Page 109 - I have been there on some mornings to hear the sermons, have felt such an ill-savoured unwholesome savour, that I was the worse for it a great while after ; and I think no less, but it is the occasion of great sickness and disease.