| Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 450 pages
...Winchester. The world wanted learning to hear how learned this man was; so skilkd in all, especially the Oriental languages, that some conceive he might (if then living) almost have served as an interpreter-general at the contusion of tongues. He died in the first year of the reign of king... | |
| James Townley - Bible - 1821 - 570 pages
...most learned men of the age in which be lived ; so that Fuller, in his humourous way, says of him : " the world wanted learning to know how learned this...Oriental) languages, that some conceive he might, if then li ving, almost have served as an interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues." In 1589, i -, he... | |
| Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1837 - 888 pages
...in Cambridge; then dean of WesfT minster, bishop of Chichester, Ely, and at last of Winchester,, ,. T,he world wanted learning to know how learned this man was, so HkiHed in all (especially oriental) languages that some conceive he might, if then living, almost have... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1843 - 462 pages
...Andrewes had for learning among his contemporaries may be seen from the following extracts : — " The world wanted learning to know how learned this...conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as an interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues." (Fuller, book xi.) He is said to have known fifteen... | |
| James Townley - Bible - 1847 - 620 pages
...most learned men of the age in which he lived ; so that Fuller, in his humorous way, says of him : " The world wanted learning to know how learned this...conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as an interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues." In 1589 he was chosen master of Pembroke-Hall,... | |
| Presbyterian Church - 1847 - 632 pages
...him: "The world wanted learning to know how learned this man WM; so skilled in all (especially the Oriental) languages, that some conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as interpreter general at the confusion of tongues." John Laificld. " Being skilled in architecture, his... | |
| James Townley - Bible - 1856 - 610 pages
...most learned men of the age in which he lived; so that Fuller, in his humorous way, says of him : " The world wanted learning to know how learned this...conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as an interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues." In 1589 he was chosen master of Pembroke-Hall,... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1858 - 664 pages
...and was accounted one of the best scholars of his time. Launcelot Andrews — Fuller says of him : " The world wanted learning to know how learned this man was ; so skilled in all (especially the Oriental) languages, that some conceive that he might, if then living, almost have served as interpreter... | |
| George Gresley Perry - 1861 - 698 pages
...few more eminent names in our Church history than that of Bishop Andrewes. He was so learned that " the world wanted learning to know how learned this...languages, that some conceive he might, if then living, have served as interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues. "f He loved to see the service of the... | |
| 1863 - 1052 pages
...that period— the learned bishop Andrews,* — for example. * Fuller ваув quaintly of Andrews, ' the world wanted learning to know how learned this...conceive he might, if then living, almost have served ая nn interpreter general ut the confusion of tongues.' Andrews was master of Latin, Greek, Hebrew,... | |
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