 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1858 - 696 pages
...he found ready listeners. After a long struggle, in the course of which, as he afterwards boasted, he had " been committed to thirty-two prisons, in...some of which he could not see his hand at noonday," 2 he withdrew with some followers to Middleburg, in Zealand, where they established a congregation.... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 686 pages
...he found ready listeners. After a long struggle, in the course of which, as he afterwards boasted, he had " been committed to thirty-two prisons, in...some of which he could not see his hand at noonday," 2 he withdrew with some followers to Middleburg, in Zealand, where they established a congregation.... | |
 | 1870 - 372 pages
...constable who came to demand a parish rate from him. It was his boast that he had been committed to 32 prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. Had it not been for the powerful influence of his relative, the Lord Treasurer Burghley, he would not... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1860 - 552 pages
...Brown's fortitude was no less apparent than his intrepidity ; for he was afterwards able " to boast, that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he ;> 1 Fuller, Bk. IX. p. 168. Hey- that, during "the last icinter," the lin's Prcsb., Bk. VII. Sec.... | |
 | 1862 - 616 pages
...of the ecclesiastical tyranny was arrayed against him, and he would boast that he had been cast into thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. He at length settled at THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS. Northampton ; while there, the Bishop of Peterborough cited... | |
 | Samuel Tymms, Charles Harold Evelyn White - 1864 - 480 pages
...years of age ; where he soon after died — Anno, 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to 32 prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." After Browne's death, his principles continued to gather strength in England. The Brownists... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...points, I am desirous this one should tions, having been committed at different times to thirty -two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at broad day. Before his removal with his followers to Middleburg in Zealand, he became disgusted with... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 pages
...their principles. He was committed, as he afterwards boasted, to thirty-two prisons in succession, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. Nor were his adherents more mercifully treated : many of them were fined and imprisoned, and some put... | |
 | George Punchard - 1867 - 494 pages
...quiver." — for his opinions — having, according to his own statement, been committed to no less than thirtytwo prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand before him at noon-day — yet, after all, he was a man of whom neither his early nor later friends... | |
 | George Punchard - 1867 - 492 pages
...quiver." — for his opinions — having, according to his own statement, been committed to no less than thirtytwo prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand before him at noon-day — yet, after all, he was a man of whom neither his early nor later friends... | |
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Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. 
