The History Civil and Ecclesiastical, & Suruey of the Antiquities, of Winchester, Том 1

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Jas. Robbins, and sold in London by Cadell and Davies, ... J. Richardson ... Keating, Brown, & Keating, ... and Joseph Booker, 1809
 

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Стр. 325 - If you know surely that a bishop or preacher erreth or teacheth perverse doctrine, come and declare it to some of our Council or to us, to whom is committed by God the high authority to reform and order such causes and behaviours...
Стр. 334 - So far, to make us wifh for ignorance ? And rather in the dark to grope our way, Than led by a falfe guide to err by day ? Who fees thefe difmal heaps, but would demand, What barbarous invader fack'd the land ? But when he hears, no Goth, no Turk did bring This defolation, but a Chriftian king ; When nothing, but the name of zeal, appears 'Twixt our beft aftions and the worft of theirs, What does he think our facrilege wou'd fpare, When fuch th...
Стр. 333 - It was a pitiful thing to hear the lamentation that the people in the country made for them...
Стр. 300 - Beaufort, fon of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, by his third wife, Catharine Swyneford.
Стр. 423 - AB do here declare my unfeigned afTent and confent to all and every thing contained and prefcribed in and by the book...
Стр. 131 - Alfred, the wonder and astonishment of all ages ! If we reflect on his piety and religion, it would seem that he had always lived in a cloister : if on his warlike exploits, that he had never been out of camps ; if on his learning and writings, that he had spent his whole life in a college ; if on his wholesome laws, and wise administration, that these had been his whole study and -employment.
Стр. 198 - There it was treated with proper respect, and buried in the centre of the cathedral choir, many persons looking on, but few grieving. A proof of the bad opinion which the people entertained of the deceased monarch is that they interpreted the fall of a certain tower in the cathedral, which happened the following year, and covered his tomb with its ruins, into a sign of the displeasure of heaven that he had received Christian burial.
Стр. 24 - Giant, which also contained a number of living men within it, who raised the same, and caused it to move from place to place. The popular tradition was, that this figure represented a certain Pagan Giant, who used to devour the inhabitants of these places, until he was killed by the Patron Saint of the same.
Стр. 355 - First, then, it is to be observed, that if Mary was a persecutor, it was not in virtue of any tenet of her religion that she became so.
Стр. 418 - May 1655, in the 1st year of her age. Mrs. Mary Cromwell, a third daughter, died 24th September 1654, in the 2nd year of her age.

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