| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1884 - 802 pages
...adopting the words of a writer, " 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... | |
| David J. Deane - Christian martyrs - 1884 - 136 pages
...Swift," and Fuller, describing the scene, quaintly but truly says : " 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 Wicliffe were the emblem of his doctrine, which is... | |
| Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1886 - 448 pages
...with his bones and his doctrines. How does it turn out ? An historian says thus : — " 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... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1888 - 800 pages
...burned. This was done, and the ashes were thrown into a neighboring stream called the Swift. " The Swift conveyed them 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 are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now scattered... | |
| George Stokes - Religion - 1834 - 504 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... | |
| Edmund Bogg - Lake District (England). - 1898 - 276 pages
...ashes became charred in the fire, after which the remains were thrown into the river Swift. "The Swift conveyed them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, and so on to the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is... | |
| William Charles Edmund Newbolt - Cathedrals - 1899 - 362 pages
...the river Swift which runs through it ; but, as old Fuller writes, " 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 Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1901 - 944 pages
...burned. This was done, and the ashes were thrown into a neighboring stream called the Swift. " The Swift conveyed them 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 are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now scattered... | |
| John Wildman Moncrief - Church history - 1902 - 468 pages
...to ashes and the ashes were thrown into the river Swift. "The little river carried Wiclif's remains into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn...and they to the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." But practically... | |
| Eugene Stock - Bible - 1906 - 248 pages
...— come to nought. But Thomas Fuller, a quaint writer of Charles the First's time, says, " The brook conveyed them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas (Bristol Channel), and they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe were the emblem of... | |
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