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" 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... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 292
by George Burnett - 1807
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 pages
...this he asked for removal to some office in which he might be at peace. He wrote to the archbishop: " My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which...nature did not intend me for contentions, but for stud}' and quietness. My lord, my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved tiic more unpleasant...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 pages
...this he asked for removal to some office in which he might be at peace. He wrote to the archbishop: " My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which...noise and oppositions of this place; and indeed. God nnd nature dkl not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. My lord, my particular contests...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 712 pages
...this he asked for removal to some office in which he might be at peace. He wrote to the archbishop: " My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it iu my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place; and indeed,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...accomplish : Mr LORD — When I lost tho freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I fonnd gome degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. But I...am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place ; aud, indeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. And,...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 pages
...this he asked for removal to some office in which he might be at peace. He wrote to the archbishop: " My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, 3'ct I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 31

1845 - 778 pages
...archbishop, but not without opposition and clamour. " I am weary," writes the mild and gentle Hooker, " of the noise and oppositions of this place ; and,...Nature did not intend me for contentions, but for stxidy and quietness." Soon after Travers was prohibited from preaching, Hooker resigned the masf the...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...and he petitioned his superior to remove him to 'some quiet parsonage.' The following is the appeal: 'My Lord,— When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I fonnd some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage. But I am weary of the noise and oppositions...
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Men and Books: Or, Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The ...

Austin Phelps - 1882 - 384 pages
...ecclesiastical superior, Archbishop Whitgift, " I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place. God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness." And he proceeds to pray that he may be removed to "some quiet parsonage, where," he says, " I may see God's...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...right use of his powers in God's service, and at last he wrote this letter to the Archbishop : — My Lord, — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yrt I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions...
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Walton's Lives of dr. John Donne, sir Henry Wotton, mr. Richard Hooker, mr ...

Izaak Walton - 1884 - 536 pages
...earnestly solicited the Archbishop for a remove from that place ; to whom he spake to this purpose : " My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which...parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of tin's place ; and indeed G-od and Nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness....
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