 | Reformation - 1849 - 430 pages
...its vitality, and was afterwards widely diffused. As Fuller says, " The Swift conveyed his ashes to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they wafted them into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which... | |
 | Barbara Bedford - Great Britain - 1850 - 268 pages
...flows near the town. They were disappointed; for, 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... | |
 | Religious tract society - 1850 - 560 pages
...Swift, a neighbouring brook. " This brook," the historian Fuller observes, " hath conveyed his ashes into the Avon; the Avon into the Severn; the Severn into the narrow seas; they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliff are the emblem of his doctrine, which now... | |
 | 1851 - 202 pages
...adjoining brook — happily, we should say, named the Swift, for " this brook conveyed them into . Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe were the emblem of his doctrine, which is... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 454 pages
...for ever. But they have been disappointed ; for, ns 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 Wycliffe were made the emblems of his doctrines, which... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1853 - 522 pages
...removed from the grave, and cast the ashes into a neighbouring stream called the Swift. ' The Swift conveyed them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the naiTow seas, and they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe were the emblem of his doctrine,... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...flourished the more in consequence of their opposition, for as old Fuller quaintly said, "This brook conveyed 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 Wickliffe are an emblem of his doctrine which now is... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 668 pages
...its vitality, and was afterwards widely diffused. As Fuller says, " The Swift conveyed his ashes to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and they wafted them into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of "Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which... | |
 | L. N. R. - Bible - 1854 - 522 pages
...ashes cast into the brook Swift, which runs near his church at Lutterworth. This brook conveyed them to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into WICLLF. 129 the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wiclif were the emblem of his doctrines,... | |
 | Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1854 - 522 pages
...ashes cast into the brook Swift, which runs near his church at Lutterworth. This brook conveyed them to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into WICLIF. the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wiclif were the emblem of his doctrines, gathered... | |
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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. 
