 | Anecdotes - 1746 - 306 pages
...religion to another : ' I can't help that, faid the ' vicar, but if I changed my religion, I am fure ' I kept true to my principle, which is to live * and die vicar of Bray.' Full. Worth. The earl of Arundel, who lived in the days of Charles I. was a man of... | |
 | Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...for being a turntoot and an unconftant ckanrling: No, (faid he) that's your miftake, for lalways kept my principle, which is To live and die the Vicar of Bray. And no doubt there zrefonuRM of the famefaving principles, who, though they cannot turn the wind, will... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1798 - 688 pages
...religious creeds, he made an-* f\ver, ' I cannot help that : but, if I changed my religion, I am fure I kept true to my principle ; which is, to live and die Vicar of Bray!' THE BODY OF C^SAR. A SKILFUL orator fometimes employs perfuafions more forcible than... | |
 | Conversation - 1785 - 168 pages
...a fcandal to the gown, he replied, ' I cannot help that : but, if I changed my religion, I am fure I kept true to my principle, which is, to live and die Vicar of Bray.' VIRGINITY. WHAT fhould we fay at this period of a woman near death, who fhould lament... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...one for being a tnrn-coat, andan inconstant changeling: "Not so," •aid be, "for 1 have always kept my principle, which is to live and die the Vicar of Bray." 8. Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, seeming to loath the Roman superstition, came... | |
 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 552 pages
...one for being a turn-coat, and an inconstant changeling: "Not so," said he, "for 1 have aln-ays kept my principle, which is to live 'and die the Vicar of Bray." 8. Marcus Antonius de Domims, Archbishop of Spalato, seeming to loath the Roman superstition, came... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...to another, "I cannot help that," said the vicar, " but, if I changed ray religion, I am sure that I kept true to my principle, which is to live and die Vicar of Bray." •Means of cleansing- ffouses, &c. of Rats and Mice. A, plant, which grows in abundfance... | |
 | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 pages
...gown was reproached for his versatility of religious creeds, he answered, " I cannot help that; but if I changed my religion, I am sure I kept true to my principle, which is, to live and die Vicar of Bray." ENGRAVING ON WOOD. The earliest impression of a wood-cut, of which we have any certain... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1787 - 588 pages
...reproached for his versatility of religious creeds, he made answer, ' I cannot help that: but, if 1 changed my religion, I am sure I kept true to my principle ; which is, to live and die Vicar of Bray !'" Ciiriorilitt of Literature, 1 79 1 , pp. 392, 393. One of Waktfiett's correspondents,... | |
 | 1825 - 208 pages
...taxed with being n turncoat and an inconstant changeling, as Fuller oxpresses it, he replied, " Not so, neither ; for if I changed my religion, I am sure...kept true to my principle, which is to live and die V'icarofBray!" This vivacious and Reverend hero has given birth to a proverb peculiar to this country,... | |
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Not so neither ! for if I changed my religion, I am sure I kept true to my principle; which is, to live and die the vicar of Bray! 
