 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath about the globe of the earth. And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may the ashes of Wicklifie are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 444 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."*... | |
 | Religious tract society - 1850 - 560 pages
...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 is dispersed all the world over." His... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...were then cast into the Swift — a river running close by the town. " Then the brook," says Fuller, " conveyed his ashes into Avon ; Avon into Severn ;...the narrow seas; they into the main ocean. And thus, the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which was dispersed the world over." Tradition... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 504 pages
...up and burnt, and the ashes thrown into the Swift, a brook running hard by. " Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main Ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is disfersed all the world over."... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity, ' hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all over the world.'... | |
 | 1851 - 508 pages
...departure from this earthly scene. And thus, as Fuller quaintly expresses it, " The brook did convey his ashes into Avon — Avon into Severn — Severn...narrow seas — they into the main ocean ; and thus, the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...bones were cast into the brook Swift. ' Thus,' as old Fuller quaintly expresses it, ' this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, then into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 54 pages
...cast " into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook," he continues, " has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the main ocean ; thus the ashes of Wickliffe are an emblem of his doctrine, which is... | |
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Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History. 
