 | 1851 - 202 pages
...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 now dispersed all the world over."... | |
 | William James Linton - Great Britain - 1852 - 90 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.'... | |
 | William James Linton - Great Britain - 1852 - 94 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.'... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...to this day, for the most part of his articles, do remain." " The brook," says Fuller, "did convey his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into...the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wicklif are the emblems of bis doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." In... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...throwing the ashes into a brook ; of which transaction Fuller nobly says : " This brook hath conveyed the 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 is now dispersed all the world over."... | |
 | William Henry Hoare - Church history - 1852 - 280 pages
...and burnt, and the ashes cast into an adjoining brook. ' The brook,' says Fuller, ' did convey them 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.'... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus tf,ú brook has tAe main ocean ; and thms the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed... | |
 | 1852 - 448 pages
...writes, " they cast his ashes into the Swift, a neighboring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath 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... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Bible - 1853 - 264 pages
...ashes, and cast into the Swift, a neighboring brook. " Thus," says Thomas Fuller, " 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 Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over."* P... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Bristol (England) - 1853 - 398 pages
...historian, led to that touching reflection on the first of these great men : — " The brook did convey 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 is now dispersed all the world over."... | |
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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. 
