... epitaphs on the same prelate, of no higher delicacy, and certainly not less virulent, are recorded. Spotswood, who ran perhaps as high on the opposite side, though doubtless somewhat more tempered, characterises the archbishop as " a man of good learning,... The Gledstones and the Siege of Coklaw - Seite 54von Mrs. J. Rutherford Oliver - 1878 - 80 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 Seiten
...characterises the archbishop as " a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention; but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted, to do many things hurtful to the see." Three other Epitaphs occur in the MSS. one on the " Lady Arnestoun," l6l6; and another, dated l6l7,... | |
| Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 Seiten
...characterises the archbishop as " a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention ; but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted, to do many things hurtful to the see." Three other Epitaphs occur in the MSS. one on the " Lady Arnestoun," 1616; and another, dated 1617,... | |
| Robert Wodrow - 1834 - 350 Seiten
...Saint Andrews, departed this life, a man of good learning, " ready utterance, and great invention, but an easy nature, and induced " by those he trusted to do many things hurtfull to the See, especially in " leasing the tithes of his benefices, for many ages to come, esteeming... | |
| Thomas Stephen - 1843 - 722 Seiten
...charitable judge says of him, " he was a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention ; but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted to do many things hurtful to the see, especially in leasing the titles of his benefice for many ages to come, esteeming that by this means he should purchase... | |
| Charles Jobson Lyon - 1843 - 522 Seiten
...Andrews, departed this life : a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention ; but of an easy nature, and induced, by those he trusted,...to do many things hurtful to the see, especially in leasing the tithes of his benefice for many ages to come ; esteeming (which is the error of many churchmen)... | |
| John Parker Lawson - 1844 - 920 Seiten
...Spottiswoode describes him as " a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention, but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted to do many things hurtful to the See, especially in leasing the titles of his benefice for many years to come ; esteeming, which is the error of many churchmen,... | |
| John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.) - 1859 - 496 Seiten
...uay 2d. ready utterance, and great invention, but of an easy nature," who, in pecuniary matters, was "induced by those he trusted, to do many things hurtful to the see;" Be left a- paper behind him, testifying to the sincerity with which* he believed in the- scriptural... | |
| Marjory G. J. Kinloch - 1888 - 350 Seiten
...and his successor was Patrick Lindsay. Archbishop Gladstanes, " a man of good learning .... but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted to do many things hurtful to the see," 2 died in 1615 ; and on the 6th of August of that year, John Spottiswood, Archbishop of Glasgow, was... | |
| Sir William Mure - 1898 - 414 Seiten
...after his death praises him as " a man of good learning, readie utterance, and great invention, but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted to do many things hurtful to the See." Of his death he says, " He ended his days most piously, and to the great comfort of all the beholders."... | |
| 1911 - 548 Seiten
...description of the Archbishop : ' A man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention, but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted to do many things hurtful to the see, especially in leasing the tithes of his benefice for many ages to come, and for a small duty ; esteeming (which is... | |
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