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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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Selected Writings

Izaak Walton - 1997 - 216 pages
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Selected Writings

Izaak Walton - 1997 - 216 pages
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Walton's Lives: Conformist Commemorations and the Rise of Biography

Jessica Martin - 2001 - 384 pages
...hamlet. In a significant speech made (supposedly) to Whitgift himself, Walton has his Hooker claim ... 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 a Justification of the laws of our Ecclesiasticall...
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The Lives of - John Donne - Sir Henry Wotton - Richard Hooker - George ...

Izaak Walton - 2006 - 448 pages
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Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2

Izaak Walton - 2006 - 236 pages
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The Oxford and Cambridge Spelling Manual

R. H. Allpress - 2007 - 196 pages
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Eminent English Writers

William Lawson - 2019 - 306 pages
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The life of st. Ignatius [extr. from Apostolici. With a tr. of st. Ignatius ...

William Cave - 1842 - 304 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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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 31

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 774 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,...me for contentions, but for study and quietness." Soon after Travers was prohibited from preaching, Hooker resigned the mastership of the Temple, and,...
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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumes 66-67

1780 - 826 pages
...found fome degree of it in my quiet country parfonage. But I am weary of the noilĂȘ and oppoiiiioti of this place ; and indeed God and Nature did not intend me for contentions, but for ftmly and quietnefs. And, my Lord, my particular contefts here with Mr- Travels have proved the more...
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