 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1849 - Počet stránok 544
...in 1630, shortly after BRO 118 BRO his committal. He used to bout, "that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents. BROWN, THOMAS,... | |
 | P. Godwin - 1852 - Počet stránok 844
...magistrate, and he d. shortly after his committal. He used to boast, " that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents. — THOMAS, a writer... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1853 - Počet stránok 388
...upon him; but he was, nevertheless, a mark for persecution, and had, it is said, been in no less than thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday. Flying at length to Holland, he became pastor of a Separatist congregation,, with whom, however, he... | |
 | John Buxton Marsden - 1853 - Počet stránok 492
...heat and rashness of untamed childhood, could soon boast that ho had been the tenant of two-and-thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. Puller, who had often seen him, describes him as of an imperious nature, ready to take offence on trivial... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - Počet stránok 526
...Here he died, in the year 1630, after boasting " that he had been committed to thirty-two prison?, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." The sect of the Brownists continued to increase after Brown's defection ; so that, according to a speech... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - Počet stránok 608
...by the established prelates, wandered up and down the country, and was committed to more than thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. For endeavoring to establish his opinions, or sect, at Northampton, he was cited to appear before the... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1856 - Počet stránok 832
...magistrate, and he d. shortly after his committal. He used to boast, " that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents,— THOMAS, a writer... | |
 | John Buxton Marsden - 1856 - Počet stránok 524
...and died, in 1630, aged upwards of eighty years; boasting he Viad been committed to two-and-thirty prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day." But the party which he had formed and abandoned exhibited none of their leader's versatility ; for... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - Počet stránok 542
...support of his opinions, and sustained various persecutions, having been committed at different times to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at broad day. Before his removal with his followers to Middleburg in Zealand, he became disgusted with... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1868 - Počet stránok 948
...ecclesiastical courts, ceremonies, and episcopal ordination of ministers, and exulting above all, in the boast that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons,...some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. The queen and the bishops had recourse to the usual remedy, persecution, and the Biownists were oppressed... | |
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Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. 
