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" At the sight of a Cross or Crucifix I can dispense with my hat, but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour... "
The Monthly Review - Page 525
1842
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

1867 - 878 pages
...may express or promote my invisible devotion. I should violate my own arm rather than a church ; nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the sight of a cross or a crucifix I can dispense with my bat, but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour ; I cannot...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1821 - 444 pages
...may express or promote my invisible devotion. I should violate my own arm rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the...I cannot laugh at, but rather pity, the fruitless Joannes of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in circumstances,...
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...crucifix (dangerous to the common people) deceive not my judgment, nor abuse my devotion at all. — At the sight of a cross or crucifix I can dispense...; I cannot laugh at, but rather pity the fruitless journies of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in circumstance,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With ...

John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pages
...Browne, who in his " Religio Medici" says, " I should violate my own arm rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the sight of a cross or a crucifix, I can dispense with my hat, but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour ; I cannot...
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An Historical and Critical Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Right ...

John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...Browne, who in his " Religio Medici" says, " I should violate my own arm rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the sight of a cross or a crucifix, I can dispense with my hat, but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour ; I cannot...
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Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...with the thought or memory of my Saviour ; I cannot laugh at, but rather pity the fruitless journies of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in circumstance, there is something in it of devotion. I could never hear the Ave Maria bell without an...
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Broadstone of Honor

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
.....'.-.••''•-••• . ,.i • * De Fipilui, IV. 28. church, nor willingly deface the name of saint ot martyr. At the sight of a cross or crucifix I can...thought or memory of my Saviour, I cannot laugh at, hut rather pity, the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of friars ;...
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Thoughts on laughter, by a chancery barrister [B. Montagu.].

Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 pages
...obsequies, itself furnishing forth its own funeral banquet.* In the same spirit Sir Thomas Brown says — " At the sight of a cross or crucifix I can dispense...rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, or conteum the miserable condition of friars; for though misplaced in circumstances, there is something...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...may express or promote my invisible devotion. I should violate my own arm rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the...but rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, nor contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in circumstances, there is something...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...should violate my own arm rather than a church ; nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr.9 At the sight of a cross, or crucifix, I can dispense...of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of 8 .... imltrofieralioas] From impro- than a church ; nor willingly, ^r.] The pero, to reproach, to...
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