 | John Lewis - Reformation - 1720 - 442 pages
...of the ' Root of a Tree, were multiplied; and every where filled the Compafsof the Kingdom : Info^ much that a Man could not meet two People on the Road,...Difciple of Wicliffe s. Thefe, the fame Writer, carried Deeven. away with the Sentiments of the Times in which c> a<5<55« he lived, fpeaks very contemptibly... | |
 | 1805 - 510 pages
...the root of a tree, were multiplied, and every where filled the compass of tli e kingdom ; insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of W/ci/j^V*. These were, like their master, (continues this prejudiced writer) too eloquent,... | |
 | John Lewis - 1820 - 450 pages
..." root of a tree, were multiplied ; and every where filled " the compass of the kingdom : insomuch that a man " could not meet two people on the road, but one of them " was a disciple of Wiclifs. So far," says he, " had they " prevailed, that they had got over to their sect... | |
 | John Lewis - 1820 - 444 pages
...of the root of a tree, were multiplied, and every where filled the compass of the kingdom; insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiclif's. These were like their master, too eloquent, and too many for other people in... | |
 | 1831 - 544 pages
...growing from the root of a tree. They every where filled the kingdom ; so that a man could scarcely meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wickliff'." Knighlon also says, " They so prevailed by their laborious urging of their... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1841 - 216 pages
...tree, which everywhere filled the compass of the kingdom:" and says (somewhat extravagantly I presume) that " a man could not meet two people on the road but one of them was a disciple of Wickliffe. It is amusing to read the character given by Knyghton of some of the more active... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...that " his followers so increased that they everywhere filled the compass of the kingdom ; insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiclif." This, he affirms, arose from " the respect they always pretended for what they... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Bible - 1845 - 672 pages
...wisdom from the Book of God, and their number could not be few. A contemporary writer has affirmed that " a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiekliffe." This was the testimony of an enemy, and not improbably the language of hatred... | |
 | Jesus Christ, Author of Essays on the church - Church history - 1845 - 522 pages
...of the realm." Knighton, the popish chronicler, * Foxe, vol. iii. p. 187. goes so far as to assert, that " a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiclif's." Wiclif himself boldly declares, that a third part of the clergy thought with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 538 pages
...that " his followers so increased that they everywhere filled the compass of the kingdom ; insomuch that a man could not meet two people on the road, but one of them was a disciple of Wiclif." This, he affirms, arose from " the respect they always pretended for what they... | |
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The number of those who believed in Wickliff's doctrine very much increased, and were multiplied like suckers growing from the root of a tree. They every where filled the kingdom; so that a man could scarcely meet two people on the road but one of them... 
