 | Gervase Smith - 1882 - 556 trang
...into the House of Lords to suppress it; but the Duke of Lancaster stoutly objected, and exclaimed, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other...law of our faith, written in their own language." Most gloriously have the aspirations of John of Gaunt been realized ! Many copies of Wycliffe's Bible... | |
 | Alfred Owen Smith - 1882 - 506 trang
...into the House of Lords to suppress it; but the Duke of Lancaster stoutly objected, and exclaimed, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other...law of our faith, written in their own language." Most gloriously have the aspirations of John of Gaunt been realized ! Many copies of Wycliffe's Bible... | |
 | Blackford Condit - 1882 - 484 trang
...debate the Duke of Lancaster is reported to have said : " We will not be the dregs of all ; seeing other Nations have the Law of GOD, which is the Law of our Faith, written in their own Language That he would maintain our having the Law in our own tongue against those, whoever they should be,... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - 1889 - 592 trang
...the reverse, where the language outlives the Nation. Still the words of John of Gaunt stand good : We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other...the law of our Faith, written in their own language. Such is our duty, our maxim, and our practice. " The Earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord,... | |
 | 1889 - 616 trang
...the dregs of all," he cried, when some churchman was questioning the good of Wyclif's work, "seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their tongue." WycliPs prologue puts it on the same ground: "Frenchmen, Beemers (Bohemians), and Britons... | |
 | Andrew Edgar - 1889 - 424 trang
...should be abreast of her neighbours. " We will not be the dregs of all," shouted the speaker, "seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their tongue." To the same effect, John Purvey wrote in his prologue to the revised edition of Wyclif's Bible,... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - 1890 - 108 trang
...the protector of Wycliffe from a more deadly enemy than the pagan Roman, viz. the Roman Papist : " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other " nations have the Law of God written in their own language." We find these words interpreted into acts by the Protestant martyrs,... | |
 | James Townley - 1891 - 544 trang
...to the king, defended a vernacular translation, saying, "We will not be the dregs of all men; seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language." Declaring, at the same time, in the most solemn manner, "That he would maintain our having this law... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - 1892 - 240 trang
...up to the first years of the present century : Remember the words of John of Gaunt, " We Englishmen will not be the " dregs of all, seeing that other...Law of our faith, written in their own language." Even when the New Testament had been collected together, say in the middle of the second century, the... | |
 | George Stokes - 1834 - 504 trang
...translations. The duke of Lancaster is said to have interfered on this occasion, boldly declaring, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other...law of our faith, written in their own language." He added that he would maintain our having the divine law in our own tongue, against those, whoever... | |
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We will not be the dregs of all : seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language. 
