History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationMacmillan, 1870 - 200 pages |
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... original objects and their modern corruptions . It is quite im- possible that our Cathedral institutions can stay much longer in the state in which they now are , a state which satisfies no party . If they are not reformed by their ...
... original objects and their modern corruptions . It is quite im- possible that our Cathedral institutions can stay much longer in the state in which they now are , a state which satisfies no party . If they are not reformed by their ...
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... original flock ; it was only gradually that he came to have much to do with the people beyond the city , and , when he did so , the limits of his diocese were fixed by the limits of the civil jurisdiction of the city of which he was ...
... original flock ; it was only gradually that he came to have much to do with the people beyond the city , and , when he did so , the limits of his diocese were fixed by the limits of the civil jurisdiction of the city of which he was ...
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... original uses . The Bishop still lives in the Palace ; the Dean still lives in the Deanery ; the Canons , Vicars , and other officers still live very largely in the houses in which they were meant to live . But this is because at Wells ...
... original uses . The Bishop still lives in the Palace ; the Dean still lives in the Deanery ; the Canons , Vicars , and other officers still live very largely in the houses in which they were meant to live . But this is because at Wells ...
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... original account given by Bishop Gisa , the person concerned . We have no account from Harold's side , but we have the con- temporary version from the other side , and it cer- tainly differs not a little from the version given by our ...
... original account given by Bishop Gisa , the person concerned . We have no account from Harold's side , but we have the con- temporary version from the other side , and it cer- tainly differs not a little from the version given by our ...
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... illustrates the difference between those times and ours that the original independence of those boroughs was won by a series of isolated local struggles , while But their reform in our days was wrought by a single 62 HISTORY OF THE.
... illustrates the difference between those times and ours that the original independence of those boroughs was won by a series of isolated local struggles , while But their reform in our days was wrought by a single 62 HISTORY OF THE.
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