 My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but...  Biographia evangelica - Page 296by Erasmus Middleton - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Christian correspondent - 1837 - 422 pages
...Love of retirement. MY LORD, When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. But...contests here with Mr. Travers, have proved the more unpleasant to me, because I believe him to be a good man, and that belief hath occasioned me to examine... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Biography - 1888 - 406 pages
...residence.—• " When I lost (said he) the freedom of my cell, •which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage.—...not intend me' for contentions, but for study and quietness."—His desire was, to be placed in a situation, "where (as he piously expresses him self)... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...having learnt by heart all the lessons which Providence had to teach him there, (for, as he says, " God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness,") he happily left it for the more retired privacy of a country living, whither the pillar and the cloud... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church of England - 1841 - 624 pages
...edition of " conformity. He lived and died 1604.] " unmarried, and though leaving • MR. RICHARD HOOKER. my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the...intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. My Lord, my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, because... | |
 | Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pages
...Ecclesiastical Polity. MY LORD, — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. But I am weary of the noise and opposition of this place [the Temple]; and, indeed, God and nature did not intend me for contention,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...of my cell, which was my collide, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. Hut 5 0] D _4=NWƬI S j fA iiature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. And, my lord, my particular... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...as follows : — ' My lord — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found Travere have proved the more unpleasant to me, because I believe him to be a good man ; and that belief... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...as follows : — ' My lord — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found . tins place ; and, indeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...the work itself. "Mv LORD, — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. But...contests here with Mr. Travers have proved the more unpleasant to me because I believe him to be a good man ; and upon that belief hath occasioned me to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...follows : — ' My lord — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was ray college, yet I found and be involved in the same cloud, in which shall...shall unite as the sparks of a raging furnace into unpleasant to me, because I believe him to be a good man ; and that belief hath occasioned me to examine... | |
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