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... religion and morality , which concern all men alike . It includes school - books and other books for the young , the fugitive tract , the daily and weekly newspaper , secular and religious , and periodical literature in all its forms ...
... religion and morality , which concern all men alike . It includes school - books and other books for the young , the fugitive tract , the daily and weekly newspaper , secular and religious , and periodical literature in all its forms ...
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... religious house . -- Date of the Work . The composition of the Ancren Riwle is re- ferred to the same date as the Ormulum , possibly a little later . The year 1225 is given as a probable conjecture . It is interesting as an extended ...
... religious house . -- Date of the Work . The composition of the Ancren Riwle is re- ferred to the same date as the Ormulum , possibly a little later . The year 1225 is given as a probable conjecture . It is interesting as an extended ...
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... religious orders . In regard both to civil and religious liberty , there was a noteworthy struggle , and many of the reforms in both , which took effect two centuries later , are distinctly traceable to the efforts put forth , and the ...
... religious orders . In regard both to civil and religious liberty , there was a noteworthy struggle , and many of the reforms in both , which took effect two centuries later , are distinctly traceable to the efforts put forth , and the ...
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... Religious Affinities . — Chaucer's writings show him to have been in sympathy with Wyckliffe and the Lancastrians , in their resistance to the encroachments of the Roman hierarchy . He does not indeed enter into the political and religious ...
... Religious Affinities . — Chaucer's writings show him to have been in sympathy with Wyckliffe and the Lancastrians , in their resistance to the encroachments of the Roman hierarchy . He does not indeed enter into the political and religious ...
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... religious orders by the bickerings and intrigues of those connected with the University . Having taken an active part in resisting the encroachments of the friars resident at Oxford , he was afterwards led to extend his inquiries into ...
... religious orders by the bickerings and intrigues of those connected with the University . Having taken an active part in resisting the encroachments of the friars resident at Oxford , he was afterwards led to extend his inquiries into ...
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Page 273 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
Page 209 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 428 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 78 - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I.
Page 319 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Page 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 62 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other ; he is never out of his diocese...