Women of the Reformation

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Dean & Son. Ludgate Hill. E.C., 1861
 

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Seite 18 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Seite 15 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 37 - O Lord, I have more enemies now than there are hairs on my head: yet, Lord, let them never overcome me with vain words, but fight thou, Lord, in my stead ; for on thee cast I my care. With all the spite they can imagine, they fall upon me which am thy poor creature. Yet, sweet Lord, let me not set by them which are against thee; for in thee is my whole delight.
Seite 15 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Seite 5 - twill pierce thee to the heart ; A broken reed, at best ; but, oft, a spear ; On its sharp point peace bleeds, and hope expires.
Seite 25 - You durst not, for your ears, have avouched that for God's word in my father's days, that now you do. And as for your new books, I thank God I never read any of them: I never did, nor ever will do.
Seite 39 - I understand the council is not a little displeased, that it should be reported abroad that I was racked in the Tower. They say now, that what they did there was but to fear me ; whereby I perceive they are ashamed of their uncomely doings, and fear much lest the king's majesty should have information thereof; wherefore they would no man to noise it Well ! their cruelty God forgive them.
Seite 32 - For more proof thereof, mark it when you list, let it but lie in the box three months, and it will be mouldy, and so turn to nothing that is good. Whereupon I am persuaded that it cannot be God.
Seite 44 - And thus the good Anne Askew with these blessed martyrs, being troubled so many manner of ways, and having passed through so many torments, having now ended the long course of her agonies, being compassed with flames of fire...
Seite 10 - We sail the sea of life — a Calm One finds, And One a Tempest — and, the voyage o'er, Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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