 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 430 trang
...indulgences were then granted to all that vilitedhis tomb; and 100,000 pilgrims have been regilteted at a time in Canterbury. The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that town the adoration of the Deity; nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for inltancc, there... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 480 trang
...were then granted to all that visited his tomb; and a hundred thousand pilgrims have been registere'd at a time in Canterbury. The devotion towards him...nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and six-pence ; at the Virgin's,... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - 1814 - 382 trang
...altogether rural and perfectly in unison with the picturesque beauties of its neighbourhood. The principal quite effaced in that place the adoration of the Deity ; nay even that of 'trie virgin. At God.s altar for instance, there were offered in one year 31. 2s. 6d. at the Virgin's... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 564 trang
...have been registered at a time in Canterbury. The devotions towards him had quite effaced in that town the adoration of the Deity, nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year 31. 2s. 6d., at the Virgin's, 631. 5s. 6d., at St. Thomas's,... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 trang
...superstition, none was so zealously destroyed, as the shrine of Thomas a Becket, commonly called St. Thomas of Canterbury. The devotion towards him had quite effaced, in that place, the adoration of the Deity. In a particular year, there was not offered at the altar of God a single penny, though at Becket's... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 trang
...the writings of Mo* " The devotion towards St Thomas had quite effaced, in that place (Canterbury,) the adoration of the Deity ; nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds, two shillings, and sixpence ; at the Virgin's,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 420 trang
...were then granted to all that visited his tomb ; and a hundred thousand pilgrims have been registered at a time in Canterbury. The devotion towards him...nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence; at the Virgin's sixty-three... | |
 | William Tyndale - 1831 - 622 trang
...— Todd's Illustrations of the lives of Chaucer and Gower, p. 355. Thus, as the historian remarks, " The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that...nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence ; at the Virgin's... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 trang
...will probably recur to the recollection of the reader: — " The devotion to him (Thomas a Beckct) had quite effaced in that place the adoration of the Deity ; nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's ah.tr, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds, two shillings, and sixpence; at the... | |
 | William M'Gavin - 1833 - 808 trang
...Such, for instance, was the worship paid to St. Thomas a. Beckct at Canterbury, that Hume tells us, " The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that...nay, even that of the virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were ofiered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence ; at the virgin's,... | |
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The devotion towards him had quite effaced in that place the adoration of the Deity; nay, even that of the Virgin. At God's altar, for instance, there were offered in one year three pounds two shillings and sixpence; at the Virgin's, sixty-three pounds... 
