The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain, Volume 14

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J. R. Smith., 1874
 

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Page 7 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Page 151 - My desires (he says) have always been for learning and divinity : and though I have been accidentally put from it by God's providence, yet I have always thought myself more qualified for it than for any other employment ; because my bodily weakness will not permit me action, and my mind has always been Jilted for the contemplation of God and his works.
Page 159 - I value not all, or any of the same of him and his infidel companions; being very well satisfied that if Christ and his apostles were to walk again upon earth, they should not escape free from the calumnies of their venomous tongues. But I hate his ill manners, not the man: were he either honest...
Page 32 - Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and...
Page 153 - ... as she could have no positive proof to convict them, it would be useless. He then set about drawing circles, squares, &c., to amuse her; and after some time told her if she would go into a particular field, that in such a part of it, in a dry ditch, she would find them all tumbled up in a sheet.
Page 153 - Good woman, I am heartily glad you have found your linen ; but I assure you I knew nothing of it, and intended only to joke •with you, and then to have read you a lecture on the folly of applying to any person to know events not in human power to tell.
Page 205 - Daie Julie, the year of our Lord God 1595, on the which Daie the Church, towre, bells, and all other things pertaining to the same, together with the houses and goods, was Burn'd and spoil'd by the Spaniards in the said parish, being Wensdaie the daie...
Page 94 - Good Sirs ! our meaning is not small, That God to Praise assemblies call ; And warn the sluggard, when at home That he may with devotion come Unto the Church and joyn in prayer ; Of Absolution take his share. Who hears the bells, appears betime, And in his seat against we chime. Therefore I'd have you not to vapour, Nor blame ye Lads that use the Clapper By which are scar'd the fiends of hell, And all by virtue of a Bell.
Page 116 - Oft in the forest far one hears A passing sound of distant bells ; Nor legends old nor human wit Can tell us whence the music swells. From the Lost Church 'tis thought that soft Faint ringing cometh on the wind : Once, many pilgrims trod the path, But no one now the way can find.
Page 160 - In Cornwall, when a child is born in the interval between an old moon and the first appearance of a new one, it is said that it will never live to reach the age of puberty. Hence the saying,

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