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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 Life and Times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland

Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 436 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 so many precious souls l Get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book ! Earth to earth and dust to dust l Get thee gone into the...
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The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 5

Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1908 - 1042 pages
...and cast it into the grave, with a commendatory prayer, of which it will suffice to quote part : " Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced...corrupt rotten book ! Earth to Earth, and dust to dust ! " But his work has survived by the elevated dignity of its style, as the outcome of a singularly...
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The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by the Late Lord Acton, Volume 5

Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 1230 pages
...and cast it into the grave, with a commendatory prayer, of which it will suffice to quote part : " Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced...corrupt rotten book ! Earth to Earth, and dust to dust I " But his work has survived by the elevated dignity of its style, as the outcome of a singularly...
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Seventeenth Century Men of Latitude: Forerunners of the New Theology

Edward Augustus George - 1908 - 354 pages
...could be so buried. Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious 59 souls t Get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book! Earth to...dust! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption. But Cheyne'l could not bury Chillingworth. His...
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Seventeenth Century Men of Latitude: Forerunners of the New Theology

Edward Augustus George - 1908 - 250 pages
...be so buried. Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious souls 1 Get thec gone, thou corrupt, rotten book! Earth to earth, and...dust! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption. But Cheyne'l could not bury Chillingworth. His...
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Seventeenth Century Men of Latitude: Forerunners of the New Theology

Edward Augustus George - 1908 - 248 pages
...cursed book, which has seduced so many precious 59 souls I Get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book I 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. But Cheyne'l could not bury Chillingworth. His...
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Sussex in the Great Civil War and the Interregnum, 1642-1660

Charles Thomas-Stanford - 1910 - 416 pages
..."thou cursed booke, which has seduced so many precious souls; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten booke, earth to earth, and dust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottennesse, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption." Whereupon he went from the...
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History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the ..., Volume 1

Henry William Clark - 1911 - 472 pages
...with curious self-satisfaction, flung into the dead man's grave a copy of the famous book, crying " Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which hast seduced...precious souls ; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book ; get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayst rot with thy author and see 1 Des Maizeanx,...
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The Sussex Coast

Ian C. Hannah - 1912 - 484 pages
...cursed booke, which has seduced so many precious souls ; get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten booke, earth to earth and dust to dust ; get thee gone into the place of rottenne'ss, that thou mayest rot with thy author, and see corruption." A little farther out on the London Road is the...
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Pax Britannica: A Study of the History of British Pacification

Henry Shaw Perris - 1913 - 348 pages
...Chillingworth's open grave, burst forth : " Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many faithful souls. Get thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book. Earth to earth, and dust to dust. Get thee into this place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with the author, and see corruption ! " In Jeremy...
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