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" Get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book; earth to earth, and dust to dust! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption! "
The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages - Page 264
by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1889
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian ...

1871 - 832 pages
...errors, he flung the book into the grave with this notable apostrophe : " Get thee gone, thou accursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls !...gone, thou corrupt, rotten book !—earth to earth, dust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and...
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Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the ..., Volume 1

John Tulloch - 1872 - 494 pages
...unworthy book ; and happy would it be for the kingdom if this book and all its fellows could be so buried. Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced...dust! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption!" So spoke a Christian divine, in the middle of...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 21

1873 - 968 pages
...funeral, cast the " Religion of Protestants " into the grave and cried, " Get thee gone, thou accursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls ;...; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayst rot with thy author and see corruption." Ralph Cudworth, the most philosophic divine of...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 2

1837 - 472 pages
...his works do not follow him, if they do never rise with him nor against him. 'Get thce gone, then, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious...souls ; get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book, eartli to earth, and dust to dust. Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayst rot...
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Memorials of the South Saxon See and Cathedral Church of Chichester

William Richard Wood Stephens - 1876 - 412 pages
...Salvation,' and flung it into the grave upon the body of the author, crying, ' Get thee gone then, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious...! earth to earth, and dust to dust ! Get thee gone to the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author and see corruption. So much for the...
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History of the Puritans in England

William Hendry Stowell - 1878 - 346 pages
...conclusion, throwing the book insultingly on the corpse in the grave, said thus : ' Get thee gone, then, thou cursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book—earth to earth, and dust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest...
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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 2

John McClintock - 1868 - 954 pages
...its rationalism, he flung it into the grave, exclaiming, " Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious souls ; get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book, earth to earth, dust to dust — go rot with thy author!" See CHEYNELL. The result of his remarkable proficiency in...
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Our own country, descriptive, historical, pictorial, Volumes 5-6

Our own country - 1882 - 736 pages
...it into the grave upon the body of the author, crying, ' Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious souls ! Get thee gone, thou...book, earth to earth and dust to dust ! Get thee gone to the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption ! So much for...
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The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, 1603-1660

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 270 pages
...unworthy book ; and happy would it be for the kingdom if this book and all its fellows could be so buried. Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced...book ! Earth to earth, and dust to dust ! Get thee out into this place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with the author, and see corruption ! " The...
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History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 602 pages
...into the open grave. " Get xiv -—r-—- thee gone," he cried, " thou cursed book, which hast 1 44- seduced so many precious souls ; get thee gone, thou...dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with the author and see corruption." " Let the dead bury their dead," were the closing...
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