"Contemner" Quotes from Famous Books
... opinion [Bliss's reference to Wood is very brief] of Earle may be added to Clarendon's testimonies: "This Dr. Earl was a [EP]very genteel man, a contemner of the world, religious, and most worthy of the office of a Bishop." He is elsewhere styled by him "learned and godly,"—but the epithet "genteel" gives an extra touch that we should be loth to lose. In reference to his Latin Translation of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity he adds: "He was ... — Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... 14:14 Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person ... — Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous |