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" line of argument, he may be con" sidered as the forerunner of Hooker, " who had to contend against pre'cisely similar opinions maintained 'by his puritan opponents. Nor, ' perhaps, is it too much to say, with 'the lamented Hallam, that this ' portion... "
Introduction ; summary of contents ; Pecock's repressor - Page xxix
by Reginald Pecock - 1860
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View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 1

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 576 pages
...Walsingham, p. 238. Lewis's Life of Peacock, p. 65. Bishop Peacock's answer to the Lollards of his time contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style, setting forth the necessity and importance of " the moral law of kinde, or moral philosophic," in opposition...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...an answer to certain of the more extravagant opinions of the Lollards, which, it hag been remarked, "contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style."t One effect of the distracting wars of the Roses was to interrupt for a time the persecution...
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The Cabinet History of England: Being an Abridgment, by the ..., Volumes 5-6

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 556 pages
...answer to certain of the more extravagant opinions of the Lollards, which, it has been remarked, " contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style.""f One effect of the distracting wars of the Roses was to interrupt for a time the persecution...
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The cabinet history of England, an abridgment of the chapters entitled ...

Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 pages
...answer to certain of the more extravagant opinions of the LolIarJs, which, it has been remarked, " contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style, "f One effect of the distracting wars of the Roses was to interrupt for a time the persecution of the...
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The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical ..., Volume 3

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 532 pages
...answer to certain of the more extravagant opinions of the Lollards, which, it has been remarked, " contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style."f One effect of the distracting wars of the Roses was to interrupt for a time the persecution...
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Memoir of John Carpenter. [Followed by] The act of parliament for ...

Thomas Brewer - 1856 - 236 pages
...certain of the more extravagant opinions of the Lollards, which, it has been remarked by Mr. Hallam, " contains passages well worthy of Hooker, " both for weight of matter and dignity of style d." The cruel treatment of Bishop Pecok has left a stigma upon the authorities of his time which will...
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Chichester, Canterbury, Rochester

Richard John King - Cathedrals - 1861 - 334 pages
...Hooker, who adopts the same line of argument. Indeed, this portion of his work, according to Hallam, "contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style." "Fulness of language," says the learned editor of the " Repressor," " pliancy of expression, argumentative...
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Mornings of the Recess, 1861-4, Volume 2

Samuel Lucas - 1864 - 362 pages
...wrote much against the so-called errors of the Lollards. His famous ' Repressor,' according to Hallam, contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style. "Fulness of language, pliancy of expression, argumentative sagacity, extensive learning, and critical...
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View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages. History of ...

Henry Hallam - 1872 - 418 pages
...Co' régi a lui fù vista. Inferno, Cant, xix, 3 Bishop Peacock's answer to the Lollards of his time contains passages well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style, setting forth the necessity and imLollards of England — Hussites of Bohemia. 337 ciety, and cannot...
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The Dublin review, Volume 24

1875 - 596 pages
...a note to the "Middle Ages," chap. ix. part ii. Mr. Hallam refers to the "Represser" as containing passages " well worthy of Hooker, both for weight of matter and dignity of style." As to his spelling, Pecock is clearly experimentalizing. In the same page, the same word occurs spelt...
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