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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 Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 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...of Pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of Fryars; for, though misplaced in Circumstances, there is something in it of Devotion. I could never...
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Anglicans and Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 1559-1725

Judith Pinnington - 2003 - 296 pages
...I should violate my own arm rather than a Church, nor willingly deface the name of Saint or Martyr. I cannot laugh at, but rather pity; the fruitless...of Pilgrims, or contemn the miserable condition of Fryars; for though misplaced in Circumstances, there is something in it of Devotion. I could never...
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What Good are the Arts?

John Carey - 2006 - 300 pages
...violate my own arm rather than a church window, nor willingly deface the memory of saint or martyr ... I cannot laugh at but rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims ... At a solemn procession I have wept abundantly, while my consorts, blind with opposition and prejudice,...
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The Night is Far Spent: A Treasury of Thomas Howard

Thomas Howard, Vivian W. Dudro - 2007 - 372 pages
...the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand. ... I should violate my own arm rather than a Church; nor willingly deface the name of Saint or Martyr. At the...of a Cross or Crucifix I can dispense with my hat." ' I find that same frame of mind at work when I read all of these saints' lives. I am also reading...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 pages
...expresss or promote my invisi- | ble devotion. I should violate my own arm 1 rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. At the...pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, or contemn 4 THE RELIGION OF A PHYSICIAN. 11 the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in circumstances,...
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the first book of the irenicum

Edward Gordon Selwyn, John Forbes - 1923 - 278 pages
...Dulia is the Western counterpart of this. Mr Riley illustrates it by the words of Sir Thomas Browne: " At the sight of a Cross or Crucifix I can dispense...scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour." * de Spir. Sancto, m. 76-80. * Ibid. 4 Cf. too, Augustine, on Psalm xcviii, Enarr. 9. 6 Dial. n : rd...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 14; Volume 77

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pages
...unbelief. In an eloquent passage, which might teach a lesson to some modern tourists, he remarks: — "At the sight of a cross or crucifix I can dispense with my hat, but scarce with the thought and memory of my Saviour. I cannot laugh at, but rather pity, the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, or...
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The Monthly Miscellany, Volumes 4-5

1841 - 768 pages
...fihould violate my own arm rather than a church, nor willingly deface the name of saint or martyr. I cannot laugh at, but rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims, or contemn the miserable devotion of fryars; for though misplaced in circumstances, there is »c.inething in it of devotion....
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The Eclectic Review

Thomas Price, William Hendry Stowell, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1866 - 610 pages
...demolish the memory of a saint or martyr. hat, but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour. At the sight of a cross or crucifix I can dispense with my ' I cannot laugh at, hut rather pity, the fruitless journeys of ' pilgrims, or contemn the miserable...
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Publications, Volume 33

Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 pages
...memory of a -Saint or Martyr. At the sight of a Crosse or Crucifix I can dispence with my hat, but not with the thought or memory of my Saviour. I cannot laugh at the fruitlesse journey of Pilgrims or contemne the miserable condition of Friars, for, though misplaced...
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