 | 1846 - 612 pages
...scattering them in the Swift, they should destroy his name and doctrine; but no! the Swift carried them into the Avon; the Avon into the Severn ; the Severn into the ocean ; and the ocean round the world." Stow, in his " Annales of England" says, "This yeere, (1384,)... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...scattering them in the Swift they should destroy his name and doctrine. But no ! the Swift carried them into the Avon ; the Avon into the Severn ; the Severn into the ocean, and the ocean round the world !* In the compilation of this account, it has been endeavoured... | |
 | George Stokes - 1825 - 176 pages
...for ever. But they have been disappointed ; as Fuller quaintly observes, the Swift conveyed his ashes into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliff were the emblems of his doctrine, which has been... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pages
...Fuller, " conveyed his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ; Severn into the narrow seas ; they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliff are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." " So," says Fox, " was he resolved into three elements — earth,... | |
 | 1831 - 544 pages
...brook conveyed his ashes into the Avon ; Avon into Severn ; Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliff are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." Chicheley held the primacy till 1443. The extent of his scriptural... | |
 | George Stokes - Lollards - 1838 - 352 pages
...perish for ever. But they have been disappointed ; as Fuller observes, the Swift conveyed his ashes into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliff were made the emblems of his doctrine, which has... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1841 - 216 pages
...the branches of the Avon. " And thus," says Fuller, the historian, " this brook did convey his ashes into the Avon ; the Avon into the Severn ; the Severn into the narrow sea ; and this into the wide ocean. And so the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine. It... | |
 | Protestantism - 1848 - 458 pages
...perish for ever. But they have been disappointed ; as Fuller observes, " the Swift conveyed his ashes into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe were made the emblems of his doctrines, which... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...they have been disappointed ; as Fuller observes, " the Swift conveyed his ashes into the Avon, tlie Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe were made the emblems of his doctrine, which... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 230 pages
...thirteen years afterwards. Then his bones were thrown into the Swift, and the Swift conveyed them to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed... | |
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The brook took them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean, — and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all . the world over. 
