 | Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...that runs at the foot of the hi!! on which the town is built. "Thus this brook," says Fuller, "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." We have endeavoured,... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...burnt, and his ashes to be thrown into the River Swift. " Thus," «gain says Fuller, " this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn...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." Passing over... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 370 pages
...that runs at the foot of the hill on which the town is built. "Thus this brook," says Fuller, "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." We have endeavoured,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 538 pages
...that runs at the foot of the hill on which the town is built. " Thus this brook," says Fuller, " 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." We have endeavoured,... | |
 | John Dowling - Papacy - 1845 - 698 pages
...written in letters of gold. " The brook Swift did convey his ashes into Avon, the Avon into Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. AND THUS THE ASHES OF WICKLIFF ABE THE EMBLEM OF HIS DOCTRINE, WHICH IS NOW DISPERSED ALL THE WORLD OVER."* CHAPTER III.... | |
 | 1845 - 364 pages
...Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow 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." We have endeavoured, as far as our limits would allow us, to exhibit Wiclif according to his own principles.... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 524 pages
...into Severn, Severn into the narrow 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. I know not whether the vulgar tradition be nai1 worth remembrance, that the brook into... | |
 | William Howitt - Church history - 1845 - 416 pages
...little adjoining river, the Swift; "whence," says Fuller, " this brook conveyed his ashes into the Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the ocean ; and the ashes of Wycliflc are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 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...doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over." * An historian observes, " The King, by Luther's intemperate language, was still more prejudiced against... | |
 | Charles Trelawny Collins-Trelawny - 1846 - 348 pages
...his grave — reduced his bones to ashes — and cast the ashes into the river Swift. " This brook conveyed his ashes into Avon — Avon into Severn...— they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of WiclifFe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all over the world."* But this attempt... | |
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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. 
