History of the present deanery of Bicester, Oxon, الأجزاء 1-2

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الصفحة 205 - There is the moral of all human tales ; « 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
الصفحة 43 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
الصفحة 212 - Speak ! but ask us not to be as ye were ! All but God is changing day by day. He who breathes on man the plastic spirit, Bids us mould ourselves its robe of clay.
الصفحة 54 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
الصفحة 44 - Prophaness and Debauchery are greatly owing to a gross Ignorance of the Christian Religion, especially among the poorer sort ; And whereas nothing is more likely to promote the practice of Christianity and Virtue, than an early and pious Education of Youth ; And whereas many Poor People are desirous of having their Children Taught, but are not able to afford them a Christian and Useful Education ; We whose Names are underwritten, do...
الصفحة 25 - Gott, after the manner of an apprentice to dwell and serve from the day of the date hereof, for and during the full and just term of five years and four months next ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended.
الصفحة 207 - Rome by the name of pope, or chief pontiff, but by the name of bishop of Rome, or of the Church of Rome: and that no one of us will pray for him as pope, but as bishop of Rome. Also that we will adhere to the said Lord King only and his successors, and will maintain his laws and decrees, renouncing for ever the laws, decrees, and canons of the bishop of Rome which shall be found to be contrary to divine law and the Holy Scripture, or contrary to the laws of this realm. Also that no one of us in assembly...
الصفحة 37 - He pulld forth a wood kniffe, Fast thither that he ran: He brought in the bores head, And quitted him like a man.
الصفحة 33 - ... was pressed to do the same in several places in the neighbourhood. Mr. Cornish particularly, who in the Parliament times had been a canon of Christ Christ, and a preacher at Carfax, whom I conversed with, when he visited his friends at Oxford, much desired a sermon of me. He lived then at Bicester, a market town , in that county, about ten miles from Oxford, where he had a small, but intelligent and sober people, with whom he lived very lovingly, being much respected in his advanced age.* His...

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