 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 530 pages
...walked barefoot towards it, proftrated himfelf before the fhrine of the faint , remained in fafting and prayer during a whole day, and watched all night...content with this hypocritical devotion towards a man , whofe violence and ingratitude had fo long difquieted his government , and had been the object of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1800 - 468 pages
...the shrine of St. Thomas of Canteibuiy, for that was the name given to Becket upon his canonisation. As soon as he came within sight of the church of Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he walked barefoot towaids the town, prostrated himself .before the shiine... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 550 pages
...danger, and of the effects of superstition on the minds of the people, went barefooted to Becket's tomb ; prostrated himself before the shrine of the saint...remained in fasting and prayer during a whole day; watched all night the holy reliques; and assembling a chapter of the monks, put a scourge of discipline... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 412 pages
...he hastened to Canterbury, in order to make atonement to the canonized ashes of Thpr mas a Becket. As soon as he came within sight of the church of Canterbury,...prostrated himself before the shrine of the saint ; and having assembled a chapter of the monks, disrobed himself before them, put a scourge of discipline... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1806 - 346 pages
...shrine of St. Thomas of Canter-bury, for .that was the .name given to Becket upon his canonr ization. As soon as he came within sight of the church of Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he walked barefoot towards the town, and prostrated himself before the shrine... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1808 - 342 pages
...the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury, for that was the name given to Becket upon his canonization. As soon as he came within sight of the church of Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he walked barefoot towards the town, and prostrated himself before the shrine... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 294 pages
...•within sight of the church of Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he walked barefoot towards the town, prostrated himself before the shrine of the saint, remained in fasting and prayer a whole day, watched all night the holy relics, made a grant of fifty pounds a year to the convent,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 386 pages
...the shrine of St. Thomas, at Canterbury, for that was the name given to Becket upon his canoniaation. As soon as he came within sight of the church of . Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he -walked barefoot towards the town, and prostrated himself before the shrine... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 400 pages
...the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury, for that was the name given to Becket upon his canonization. As soon as he came within sight of the church of Canterbury, alighting from his horse, he walked barefoot towards the town, and prostrated himself before the shrine... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 524 pages
...the minds of the people, he hastened to Canterbury. As soon as he came within sight of the church, he dismounted, walked bare-foot towards it, prostrated himself before the shrine of Thomas Becket, who had been canonized two years before, remained in fasting and prayer during the whole... | |
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As soon as, he came within sight of the church of Canterbury, he dismounted, walked barefoot towards it, prostrated himself before the shrine of the saint, remained in fasting and prayer during a whole day, and watched all night the holy relics. 
