A Comprehensive History of Norwich: Including a Survey of the City ... Civil and Municipal History ... Political History ... Religious History ... Commercial History ...

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Jarrold, 1869 - Norwich (England) - 738 pages

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Page 491 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 522 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 235 - I had never seen him before) ; his whole house and garden being a paradise and cabinet of rarities, and that of the best collection, especially medals, books, plants, and natural things.
Page 228 - Greenyard* pulpit, and the service books and singing books that could be had, were carried to the fire in the public market-place ; a lewd wretch walking before the train, in his cope trailing in the dirt, with a service book in his hand, imitating in an impious scorn the tune and usurping the words of the Litany used formerly in the Church...
Page 524 - whatsoever things are true," and '-honest," and "just," and "pure," and "lovely," and "of good report," are esteemed by men outside of the sects as really as by men inside of them.
Page 231 - Medici was no sooner published than it excited the attention of the public, by the novelty of paradoxes, the dignity of sentiment, the quick succession of images, the multitude of abstruse allusions, the subtlety of disquisition, and the strength of language.
Page 561 - These bemoaned the slavishnesse of their poor servants, whom their masters used " rather like heathens than Christians, yea, rather like horses than men, early up " and late in bed, and all day hard work and harder fare (a few herrings and mouldy
Page 228 - Toftes the sheriff, and Greenwood. Lord, what work was here ; what clattering of glasses, what beating down of walls, what tearing up of monuments, what pulling down of seats, what wresting out of irons and brass from the windows and graves ; what defacing of arms, what demolishing...

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