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1801 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 134.6 (John Foxe)
… , in the year of our Lord 1554, the twelfth day of February, about the seventeenth year of her age.
1802 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 141.2 (John Foxe)
… , the one named Elizabeth, of thirteen years of age (whom, being left without father or mother, Dr. Taylor had brought up of alms from three years old), the other named …
1803 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 142.3 (John Foxe)
Hunter, then nineteen years of age, refusing to receive the communion at Mass, was threatened to be brought before the bishop; to whom this valiant young martyr was conducted by a constable.
1804 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 148.4 (John Foxe)
… the place, fell flat on the ground, and putting off his clothes unto the shirt, he went to the stake, and there suffered with a young man of twenty years of age, whose …
1805 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 151.5 (John Foxe)
… the common schools of his own country, that at the age of fourteen years, he was sent to the University of Cambridge; where he entered into the study of the school …
1806 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 152.4 (John Foxe)
… in the convocation house, and before the young king; indeed he lectured twice every Sunday, regardless of his great age (then above sixty-seven years,) and his …
1807 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 164.1 (John Foxe)
… to the Gospel’s parable, to call me at the third hour of the day, even in my flowers, at the age of four and twenty years, even so I trust He hath called, and will call …
1808 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 171.3 (John Foxe)
… of the truth; for which reason the earl sent him to preach in the freedom of Ayr, where he remained four years; but finding danger there from the religious complexion …
1809 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 176.5 (John Foxe)
… in the fields. He was a man of sixty-six years of age, a weaver by occupation, well learned in the holy Scriptures, steadfast in his confession of the true doctrines …
1810 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 179.7 (John Foxe)
… -four years of age; but her countenance was cheerful and lively, as if prepared for the day of her marriage with the Lamb. To mock at her form was an indirect accusation …
1811 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 181.5 (John Foxe)
… the pope, and parson of the parish, received the information of this wedded Delilah, in consequence of which the poor man was apprehended. But here the awful …
1812 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 182.2 (John Foxe)
… ?” said the chaplain. “John Fetty,” returned the boy, at the same time pointing to the place where he was confined. The interrogating miscreant on this said, “Why, thy …
1813 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 197.5 (John Foxe)
… , as the season was cold, (it being in the month of December) and the building in which they were confined open at the top, they suffered the most severe hardships …
1814 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 199.12 (John Foxe)
… , cut the throat of his wife, and after having dashed out the brains of their child, an infant, threw it to the swine, who greedily devoured it.
1815 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 205.5 (John Foxe)
… since the year 1680; in London, the jail of Newgate has been crowded, within these two years sometimes with near twenty in a room, whereby several have been suffocated …
1816 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 213.4 (John Foxe)
… exhibited the greatest calmness. He was kind and very liberal. His industry has been named already. In the last fifty-two years of his life, it is estimated that …
1817 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 214.2 (John Foxe)
… , especially the toleration exercised by Napoleon Bonaparte, kept them down completely until the year 1814, when the unexpected return of the ancient government …
1818 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 222.2 (John Foxe)
… of the church to favor the retreat of the Protestants. The door was opened, and many of them escaped among the ranks of the soldiers, who had driven the mob before …
1819 Antiquities of the Jews, p. i.2 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… eighteen years later. This Epaphroditus was certainly alive in the third year of Trajan, A.D. 100. See the note on the First Book Against Apion, sect. 1. Who he was …
1820 Antiquities of the Jews, p. i.3 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… years ago; at which vast distance of ages the poets themselves have not been so hardy as to fix even the generations of their gods, much less the actions …