 | John Robinson - 1851 - 542 pages
...the 81st year of his age. He is reported to have said, " that he had been in thirty-two prisons, and in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." Different opinions have been formed concerning the sincerity of Browne. Mr. Fletcher, in his " History... | |
 | John Robinson - 1851 - 542 pages
...the 81st year of his age. He is reported to have said, " that he had been in thirty-two prisons, and in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." Though it is to bo feared without principle himself, ho advocated the noblest principles of freedom... | |
 | P. Godwin - 1852 - 844 pages
...magistrate, and he d. shortly after his committal. He used to boast, " that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents. — THOMAS,... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1853 - 388 pages
...upon him; but he was, nevertheless, a mark for persecution, and had, it is said, been in no less than thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. Flying at length to Holland, he became pastor of a Separatist congregation,, with whom, however,... | |
 | John Buxton Marsden - 1853 - 492 pages
...heat and rashness of untamed childhood, could soon boast that ho had been the tenant of two-and-thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. Puller, who had often seen him, describes him as of an imperious nature, ready to take offence... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...by the established prelates, wandered up and down the country, and was committed to more than thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. For endeavoring to establish his opinions, or sect, at Northampton, he was cited to appear... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1856 - 832 pages
...magistrate, and he d. shortly after his committal. He used to boast, " that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents,— THOMAS,... | |
 | John Buxton Marsden - 1856 - 524 pages
...and died, in 1630, aged upwards of eighty years; boasting he Viad been committed to two-and-thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day." But the party which he had formed and abandoned exhibited none of their leader's versatility... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...support of his opinions, and sustained various persecutions, having been committed at different times to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at broad day. Before his removal with his followers to Middleburg in Zealand, he became disgusted with... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1868 - 948 pages
...ecclesiastical courts, ceremonies, and episcopal ordination of ministers, and exulting above all, in the boast that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. The queen and the bishops had recourse to the usual remedy, persecution, and the Biownists... | |
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Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. 
