 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 510 pages
...dellruclion was owing to the more barbarous zeal of a minilter, who, by his difconrfes, firft enfiamed, and then permitted a fu'rious crowd to overthrow edifices, dedicated to that very Being lie pretended to honour by their ruin. The cathedral was the labour of a. hundred and fixty years,... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 964 pages
...deflrudion was owing to the more barbarous zeal of a miniiler, who, by his difcourfes, firfl enflamed, and then permitted a furious crowd to overthrow edifices,...honour by their ruin. The cathedral was the labour of a hundred and fixty years, a building that did honour to the country : yet in June 1559, JohnKnox effected... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 414 pages
...the more barbarous zeal of John Knox, who, by his declamations, first inflamed, and then permitted, ^ furious crowd to overthrow edifices, dedicated to...ruin. The cathedral was the labour of one hundred and sixty years, a building that did honour to the country; yet in June 1559, the Gothic reformer effected... | |
 | Charles Jobson Lyon - 1838 - 268 pages
...this destruction was owing to the more barbarous zeal of a minister, who, by his discourses, first inflamed, and then permitted, a furious crowd to overthrow edifices dedicated to that Being "P pretended to honour by their ruin ?" t Each of the three divisions of the Bodlean Library,... | |
 | Charles Jobson Lyon - 1843 - 522 pages
...this destruction was owing to the more barbarous zeal of a minister, who, by his discourses, first inflamed and then permitted a furious crowd to overthrow edifices dedicated to that Being he pretended to honour by their ruin !" Dr Johnson, three years after Pennant, describes with... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1903 - 234 pages
...destruction was owing to the more barbarous zeal of a minister, who, by his discourses, first enflamed, and then permitted a furious crowd to overthrow edifices, dedicated to that very Being he pretended to honor by their ruin. The Cathedral was the labor of a hundred and sixty years, a building that did... | |
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... inflamed, and then permitted a furious crowd to overthrow edifices, dedicated to that very being he pretended to honour by their ruin. The cathedral was the labour of a hundred and sixty years, a building that did honour to the country: yet in June... 