 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
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1888 - 296 pages
...QJVEy lord,'' he said, "my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, because I believe him to be a good man, and that belief hath occasioned me to examine mine own conscience concerning his opinions And on. this examination I -hase not only satisfied... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 488 pages
...the Archbishop : — "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 :...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... | |
 | Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1893 - 156 pages
...in his letter to him — an evidence of his charitable and peace-loving character — he remarks, " I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place,...intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. ... I ... have begun a Treatise, in which I intend the satisfaction of others, by a demonstration of... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Vernon Blackburn - Authors, English - 1895 - 344 pages
...to this purpose : ' 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 :...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...ELIZABETHAN PROSE. 151 When I lost the freedom of my cell (he said), 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; and, indeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study... | |
 | William Macdonald Sinclair - 1896 - 408 pages
...this purpose : ' My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college -r yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and opposition of this place ; and ijndeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...he wrote to the Archbishop, " when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ;...me for contentions, but for study and quietness." His desire, he says, was to keep himself in peace and privacy, to behold God's blessing spring out... | |
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