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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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History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1886 - 598 pages
...into the open grave. " Get xiv —^--1— thee gone," he cried, " thou cursed book, which hast 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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The Unitarian, Volume 5

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...foolish speech, he flung into the grave saying, " Get thee gone thou cursed book, which hast' seduced many precious souls; get thee gone thou corrupt, rotten book, earth to earth anddust to dust; get thee gone into the place of rottenness that thou mayest rot with thy author and...
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An Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement Since the Reformation

Joseph Henry Allen - 1894 - 272 pages
...into the grave a copy of his great " Defense," saying, " 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! " The olTc-n.-e was a-suspicion of being touched by the Unitarian...
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Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature: C-D

John McClintock - 1894 - 958 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!" Sec CHEYXKLL. The result of bis remarkable proficiency in...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Part 2

1896 - 820 pages
...delivered a startling peroration. " Get thee gone, then," he yelled, " 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 mayst rot with thy author, and see corruption ! " So saying,...
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The Church of England: The Anglican church

Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 pages
...of Protestants," into the open grave, crying out — "Get thee gone, thou accursed book which hath seduced so many precious souls ! get thee gone. thou corrupt, rotten book ; earth to earth, dust to dust. Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with the author and...
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History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1901 - 464 pages
...grave. " Get thee gone," he cried, " thou accursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souk ; get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book, earth to...; 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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History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1904 - 424 pages
...words, Cheynell cast the hated volume into the open grave. " Get thee gone," he cried, " thou accursed book, which hast seduced so many precious souls ;...; 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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The Oxford Point of View, Volume 2

1903 - 300 pages
...throwing the book insultingly on the corps said thus, — ' Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious souls : get thee gone, thou...: get thee gone into the place of rottenness that thou mayst rot with thy author and see corruption." It was a fitting end : all his life Chillingworth...
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The Life and Times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland

Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 470 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." J It is a revolting story, and would be too horrible...
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