 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 oldal
...produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, BorweWs L ife, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. — Works, 352 Shenstonc. — Graves. — Townley. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems... | |
 | Refiner - 1875 - 314 oldal
...harm would it have been, if we had all been safe landed on the other side ? ' " Leighton often said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; and he had his wish, for he breathed his last in the Bell Inn, Warwick Lane, in the 74th year of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1902 - 564 oldal
...wonder that no reference is made to the circumstances of Archbishop Leighton's death, how he often said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn : in such a place a Christian believer might properly finish his pilgrimage. This singular wish was... | |
 | 1876 - 952 oldal
...circumstances attending his death are remarkable, when we are informed that he had long since said that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, where he might not have his thoughts distracted by the officious tenderness of friends. He had gone... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 oldal
...to die at such a place. Burnet, in the History of His own Times, quotes a saying of the Archbishop, that " if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking like a pilgrim's home, to whom- this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it." This... | |
 | William Walker - 1878 - 192 oldal
...Leighton — a prelate, whom in all the holy graces of character he so closely resembled. Leighton "used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn, it looking so very like a pilgrim's going home, to whom the world was all as an inn. It was his opinion also that... | |
 | Gregory J. Robinson - 1879 - 276 oldal
...next day taken ill of a pleurisy, and died the day after at the Bell Inn, in Warwick Lane. He used to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in. it should be an inn. To die at an inn he thought looked like a pilgrim going home, who was weary of the noise and confusion... | |
 | Jabez Marrat - 1879 - 250 oldal
...seventy- three, in the ' Bell Inn,' Warwick Lane ; a somewhat remarkable fact, as he had often said that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; it looked so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom ^this world is all as an inn. Though separated from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 oldal
...had seen tuiy prospect q$ doing good there; he would havu gone and lived awl died among them. . . . There were two remarkable circumstances in his death. He used often to ?ay,' that if he were to choose a place to die in, it shonhl be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's... | |
 | 1882 - 780 oldal
...confessed that they wire strangers an1* pilgrims on the earth." Illustrative. — Lcighton had been used to say that if he were to choose a place to die in it should be an inn, for that would look so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn. It was his... | |
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He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looked like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it. 
