They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation. The Metropolitan - Page 1221844Full view - About this book
| 1828
...from each other, and of equal height ; for he was accustomed to observe, that ' neither of them should have a precedency or priority of the other; but that...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.' His mother, aware of his intention, when he first thought of this undertaking, and apprehensive of... | |
| Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...pulpit were a little distant from each other, and both of an equal height; for he would often say, " They should neither have a precedency or priority...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation." Before I proceed farther I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being made prebend, and tell... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...at present chiefly AS <J 1U HUNTINGDONSHIRE. often say, " They should neither have a prece•* dency or priority of the other ; but that prayer " and preaching,...brethren, and have an equal honour and " estimation '." Before I proceed farther, I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being m&de Prebendary,... | |
| Izaak Walton - Fore-edge paintings - 1824 - 422 pages
...pulpit were a little distant from each other, and both of an equal height; for he would often say, " They should neither " have a precedency or priority...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation." Before I proceed farther, I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being made prebend, and tell... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...pulpit were a little distant from each other, and both of an equal height : for he would often say, " They should neither have a precedency or priority...useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honor and estimation." Before I proceed farther, I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...pulpit were a little distant from each other, and both of an equal height : for he would often say, " They should neither have a precedency or priority...useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honor and estimation." Before I proceed farther, I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...they should neither have s precedency or a priority of the other ; but that prayer GEORGE HERBERT. and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation." In 1795 the church had again fallen into partial ruin. Before we leave Herbert with his Prebend, something... | |
| 1836 - 758 pages
...from each other, and both of an equal height : for he would often say, < they should neither have .. precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation. " Before I proceed farther, I must look back to the time of Mr. Herbert's being made prebendary, and... | |
| Nicholas Ferrar - Great Britain - 1837 - 254 pages
...Walton, in his life of Herbert, mentions that " he (Herbert) would often say, they should neither of them have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that...equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have equal honour and estimation." It will be admitted, in our days, that the desk is not less honoured... | |
| 1840 - 420 pages
...pulpit were a little distant from each other, and both of an equal height ; for he would often say, 'They should neither have a precedency or priority...brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation. ' " About the year 1629, owing to an attack of quotidian ague, Herbert removed for a change of air... | |
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