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" He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x. "
Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the ... - Page 252
edited by - 1854 - 368 pages
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1832 - 550 pages
...his age. ' Two circumstances connected with his death ought not to be unnoticed. He had often said, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. In such a place he thought that a Christian believer might properly finish bis pilgrimage ; the whole...
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...practice did even outshine his doctrine. There were two remarkable circumstances in his death. — He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place...inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it. He added, that the officious tenderness and care of friends was an entanglement to a dying man...
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The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems

Richard Chenevix Trench - 1835 - 250 pages
...ton] used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looks like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was...noise and confusion in it. He added that the officious care and tenderness of friends was an entanglement to a dying man, and that the unconcerned attendance...
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The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems

Richard Chenevix Trench - 1835 - 208 pages
...Pleased if we feel that God is nigh, Both where we live and where we die, * " He [Archbishop Leigh ton] used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looks like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise...
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The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 8

1835 - 772 pages
...inn, Was fain to finish the last stage There of his mortal pilgrimage." • " He (Archbishop Leighton) used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looks like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise...
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The Church of England Quarterly Review, Volume 5

1839 - 556 pages
...year was nigh. A singular circumstance is related of his death : he had been often heard to remark, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; because it looked like a pilgrim going home, in whose eyes the world resembled an inn, and who was...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 5

1839 - 592 pages
...it should be an inn; because it looked like a pilgrim going home, in whose eyes the world resembled an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it ; he also considered the attendance and solicitude of friends an entanglement upon the dying man. His closing...
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Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining: Alphabetically Arranged and ...

Charles Buck - 1841 - 520 pages
...merciful tg. me a sinner.' There was a remarkable circumstance in Dr. Leighton's death. He often used to say, that, if he were to choose a place to die...whom this world was all as an Inn, and who was weary with the noise and confusion of it. He added, that the officiousness and care of friends were an entanglement...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1881 - 510 pages
...because it was there that Archbishop Leighton halted for the last time on earth. " If I had the power to choose a place to die in it should be an inn," remarked that Christian veteran, " it looks like a pilgrim going home, to whom the whole world is but...
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The Works of Robert Leighton, D. D., Archbishop of Glasgow

Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), James Aikman - 1844 - 758 pages
...objt xxv die Junij Anno Dmj 1684, yEtatis sure 7^Two remarkable circumstances attended his death. He Zbz R, 7 =3z ^ f LM %7 W *2L3 so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn. It was his opinion also, that...
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