 | John David Ogilby - 1844 - 248 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighboring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main Ocean; and thus the ashes of Wicliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."1 1) Fuller, "... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1844 - 576 pages
...thrown Into the Sum. " Thus," as Fuller has ingeniously expressed it, " this brook (the Swift) has conveyed his ashes Into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...narrow seas, they into the main ocean : and thus the oskfs of Wyeiiffe are the emblrm of his doctrine, which пою is dispersed all the world ootr." Lutterworth... | |
 | Universalism - 1858 - 906 pages
...burned, and the ashes were thrown into the river Swift. And this stream, says an old church historian, " conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, and they into the ocean — the dispersion of his ashes becoming thus the emblem of the diffusion of... | |
 | 1844 - 558 pages
...the town of Lutterworth ; ' but the Swift did convey his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is dispersed all the world over.' Those are not wanting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...: — " They were cast into the Swift, a neighbouring 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintncss to the borders of sublimity, " hath well too. [Slabs himself. Pier. seae, they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of Wickfiffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...burnt, and the ashes thrown into a brook, called the Swift. " The brook," says Fuller, " did convey his ashes into Avon ; Avon, into Severn ; Severn, into the narrow seas ; the seas, into the main ocean. Thus are the ashes of Wicliffe the emblem of his doctrine; which doctrine... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighboring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over. SHE commandeth her husband in any... | |
 | James Thorne - Avon River - 1845 - 514 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." * "I know not,"... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 526 pages
...them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wicliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, -which now is dispersed all the world over. None can 54.1... | |
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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. 
