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... Christian architecture , Oxford , we find colleges and build- ings erected during the reigns of James and Charles , with the arrangement and features of the ancient buildings . At St. John's college are some beautiful groined ceilings ...
... Christian architecture , Oxford , we find colleges and build- ings erected during the reigns of James and Charles , with the arrangement and features of the ancient buildings . At St. John's college are some beautiful groined ceilings ...
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... Christians turning towards the same point , being a beautiful figure of the unity of the Church , those learned writers , Durandus , Gavantus , and Cardinal Bona , have adduced the following reasons for this rule : - -- 1. That the ...
... Christians turning towards the same point , being a beautiful figure of the unity of the Church , those learned writers , Durandus , Gavantus , and Cardinal Bona , have adduced the following reasons for this rule : - -- 1. That the ...
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... Christian moved to pray for his deceased brother , when he sees graven on his tomb , - " Of your charity pray for my soul " ! What a train of profit- able reflections , what holy meditations , may not be suggested by a sepulchral cross ...
... Christian moved to pray for his deceased brother , when he sees graven on his tomb , - " Of your charity pray for my soul " ! What a train of profit- able reflections , what holy meditations , may not be suggested by a sepulchral cross ...
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... Christian may recite a De Profundis and a requiem , as he wends his way to the house of prayer , and still may the branches of the solemn yew tree * overshadow its arched porch . It was customary to erect a stone cross , raised on steps ...
... Christian may recite a De Profundis and a requiem , as he wends his way to the house of prayer , and still may the branches of the solemn yew tree * overshadow its arched porch . It was customary to erect a stone cross , raised on steps ...
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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. emblematic of the resurrection , is a leading characteristic of Christian architecture , and this is nowhere so conspicuous or striking as in the majestic spires of the middle ages . The position of towers ...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. emblematic of the resurrection , is a leading characteristic of Christian architecture , and this is nowhere so conspicuous or striking as in the majestic spires of the middle ages . The position of towers ...
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Page 139 - ... the corner of the napkin, wherein the bread was laid, and when he beheld the bread he laid it down again, flew back a step or two, bowed three several times towards it, then he drew near again and opened the napkin and bowed as before.
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Page 126 - ... be set up in some convenient part of the chancel within every such church or chapel, to serve for the ministration of the blessed communion. And, to the intent the same may be done without the offence of such of our loving subjects as be not yet so well persuaded in that behalf as we could wish, we send unto you herewith certain considerations, gathered and collected, that make for the purpose.
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Page 123 - The Austin Friars, in London, was given to the Dutch Protestants as a preaching place ; it was once a most glorious church. Stow, who remembered it in its glory, describes it thus : " A large church, having a most fine spired steeple, small, high, and straight, so that I have not seen the like.