 | John Brown - 1895 - 384 pages
...gathered round him year after year — he was, he says, in the course of his life in no fewer than thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at mid-day — he scarcely seems to have deserved all the hard things that have been said of him. No doubt... | |
 | J. Gregory - 1896 - 432 pages
...Separatist principles, and made it a matter of boast that for preaching against bishops, ceremonies, etc., "he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." — AnU, pp. 43-45, 132, 133. or the civil power in any State to promote true religion and... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1896 - 426 pages
...after suffering the penalty of his zeal and proving the sincerity of his belief in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday, Browne at length began to waver — now inclined to return to the church, now recoiling toward... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...after suffering the penalty of his zeal and proving the sincerity of his belief in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday, Browne at length began to waver — now inclined to return to the church, now recoiling toward... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 762 pages
...that confinement in them was little better than death, and one sectary could boast that he had been in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. Against the persecuting episcopate the Puritans waged a war of pamphlets. They set up a secret... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...after suffering the penalty of his zeal and proving the sincerity of his belief in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday, Browne at length began to waver — now inclined to return to the church, now recoiling toward... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 444 pages
...after suffering the penalty of his zeal and proving the sincerity of his belief in thirty-two different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday, Browne at length began to waver — now inclined to return to the church, now recoiling toward... | |
 | Eri Baker Hulbert - 1908 - 512 pages
...This must have been at least his thirty-third prison experience ; for, many years before, he declared that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. I wish now to consider three questions : ( 1 ) What did this man believe? What were the opinions... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 pages
...carried thither upon a feather bed in a cart ; where not long after, he sickened and died, AD Hi.'iO, in the 81st year of his age, boasting, " That he had...their adversaries, it will be proper here to give some account of them. They, thought that the form of Church government should be deafbcratical ; that... | |
 | 1859 - 636 pages
...being very infirm, and aged above eighty years, where he soon after sickened and died, anno 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to thirty-two...prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. JY Truth stranger than Fiction.— In "N. & Q." of 12th Nov. there appeared a cutting from... | |
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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. 
