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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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The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr ...

Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...the Archbishop for a remove, to whom he spake to this purpose : " My Lord, when I lost the free" dom of my cell, which was my college, yet I " found some...•• oppositions of this place, and indeed God and ' See Dr. Spencer's Address to the Reader, prefixed to the first •dition of " Hooker's Ecclesiastical...
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...blessed tranquillity which he always prayed and laboured for. ' I am weary,' he said to the Archbishop, ' of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed...intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. I have begun to write a book which hath for its object (he peace of the Church. To this end I have...
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The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: In Eight Books : Of the Laws of ..., Volume 1

Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1821 - 392 pages
...designed ; and therefore solicited the Archbishop for a remove, to whom he spake to this purpose, '' My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which...did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietuess. And, my Lord, my particular contests here with Mr. Travers have proved the more unpleasant...
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ...

Izaak Walton - 1824 - 418 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...me for contentions, but for study and " quietness. My lord, my particular contests with Mr. " Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, be"...
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The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with ..., Volume 1

Richard Hooker - 1830 - 550 pages
...therefore 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...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...
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 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...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...
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The Power of Religion on the Mind: In Retirement, Affliction, and at the ...

Lindley Murray - 1888 - 406 pages
...entreated the archbishop to remove him to a more peaceful residence.—• " When I lost (said he) the freedom of my cell, •which was my college, yet...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)...
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The Evangelical Register: A Magazine for Promoting the Spread of ..., Volume 12

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...
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The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker ..., Volume 1

Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1841 - 624 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...was my college ; yet, I found some degree of it in " brought up under him, proffered ' many nephews (BOUIB eminent) " money unto him for h1s relief, '...
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Selected letters, ed. by T. Chamberlain

Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pages
...Whitgift, describing the feelings with which he began his Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. MY LORD, — When I lost the freedom of my cell, which...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,...
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