 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1851 - 460 pages
...Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, Wicklyff 's patron, was rejected. The duke is related to have said, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the rule of our faith, written in their own language. May 29th, died Robert Waldby, archbishop of York,... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - Great Britain - 1852 - 420 pages
...remonstrance of John of Gaunt, who concluded by saying, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing that other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language." Wickliffe was not the first who gave the English a translation of the bible. The old Saxon bishop Adhelm... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1856 - 906 pages
...down. When the hill was read, the king's uncle, the Duke of Lancaster, rose and saii " We will not he the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the law of God, wnich is the law of our faitt, written iu their own language. I will," said htt " solemnly maintain... | |
 | 1857 - 1138 pages
...Bible recently translated by Wickliff. the Duke of Lancaster, in open Parliament, declared : " We will not be the dregs of all : seeing other nations have...law of our faith, written in their own language." It was reserved, however, for the era of the Reformation to witness and to foster a more intense desire... | |
 | Charles Henry Hall - Bible - 1857 - 464 pages
...authority which has always marked the national character, to this effect : " We will not be the dogs of all, seeing other nations have the law of God,...the law of our faith, written in their own language ; that he would maintain the having this law in our own tongue against these, whosoever they should... | |
 | William Hanna - Huguenots - 1860 - 310 pages
...old love of freedom and of national independence was not dead in him. " We will not," he declared, " be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the...law of our faith, written in their own language." Failing in this endeavour to call in the civil power, the hierarchy had recourse to their own chosen... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1860 - 612 pages
...the Duke of Lancaster, that staunch friend of national independence. " We will not," he exclaimed, "be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the...law of our faith, written in their own language." Thus foiled in Parliament, the clergy assembled a grout convocation, which issued the Arundel Constitution... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...the Duke of Lancaster, that stain friend of national independence. " We will not," he exclaims!. " be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the law of God, wh; 1 is the law of our faith, written in their own language." Thus ívl-.¿ in Parliament, the clergy... | |
 | Bible - 1860 - 612 pages
...thrown aside through the influence of the Duke of Lancaster, who is reported to have said, " We will not be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have...law of our faith, written in their own language." It was perhaps, about this period, that the followers of Wickliffe revised and corrected his version... | |
 | 1863 - 546 pages
...thrown aside through tli»r influence of the Duke of Lancaster, who is reported to have said, ' We will not be the dregs of all, seeing other nations have the law of f it*!, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language. ' It was i,erhaps, about this... | |
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We will not be the dregs of all : seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language. 
