| Refiner - 1875 - 314 páginas
...harm would it have been, if we had all been safe landed on the other side ? ' " Leighton often said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; and he had his wish, for he breathed his last in the Bell Inn, Warwick Lane, in the 74th year of... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1902 - 564 páginas
...wonder that no reference is made to the circumstances of Archbishop Leighton's death, how he often said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn : in such a place a Christian believer might properly finish his pilgrimage. This singular wish was... | |
| 1876 - 952 páginas
...circumstances attending his death are remarkable, when we are informed that he had long since said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, where he might not have his thoughts distracted by the officious tenderness of friends. He had gone... | |
| Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 páginas
...to die at such a place. Burnet, in the History of His own Times, quotes a saying of the Archbishop, that " if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking like a pilgrim's home, to whom- this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it." This... | |
| Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 páginas
...Archbishop, that " if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking like a pilgrim's home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was. weary of the noise and confusion of it." This desire was gratified, for he died in the Bell inn, in Warwick Lane, in June 1684. The... | |
| William Walker - 1878 - 192 páginas
...prelate, whom in all the holy graces of character he so closely resembled. Leighton "used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking so very like a pilgrim's going home, to whom the world was all as an inn. It was his opinion also that... | |
| Jabez Marrat - 1879 - 250 páginas
...seventy- three, in the ' Bell Inn,' Warwick Lane ; a somewhat remarkable fact, as he had often said that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; it looked so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom ^this world is all as an inn. Though separated from... | |
| Gregory J. Robinson - 1879 - 276 páginas
...next day taken ill of a pleurisy, and died the day after at the Bell Inn, in Warwick Lane. He used to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in. it should be an inn. To die at an inn he thought looked like a pilgrim going home, who was weary of the noise and confusion... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...died among them. . . . There were two remarkable circumstances in his death. He used often to ?ay,' that if he were to choose a place to die in, it shonhl be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and... | |
| 1883 - 792 páginas
...pangs or convulsions. There were two remarkable circumstances in Dr. Leighton's death. He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in,...should be an inn, it looking like a pilgrim's going kome, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it. He... | |
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