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Our own innocent pleasantry cannot, in this instance, be quite reconciled with that of the learned biographer of John Knox, but we can easily conceive that his authority may be regarded in Scotland as decisive of the extent to which a humourist may venture in exercising his wit upon scriptural expressions without incurring censure even from her most rigid divines.
"Yes?" I said, for she had paused in evident doubt. "Well, she has utterly broken down." "Broken down?" "She came to my room and sobbed hysterically for nearly an hour this afternoon." "But what was the cause of her grief?" "I simply cannot understand." "Is it possible that Colonel Menendez is dangerously ill?" "It may be so, Mr. Knox, but in that event why have they not sent for a physician?"
Senator KNOX. We would like to have you see that these documents to which you have just now referred are inserted in the record in the sequence in which you have named them. Mr. BULLITT. Yes, I shall be at the service of the committee in that regard.
And as it is the only sample that we have of how things went with him during his courtship, we may infer that the period was not as agreeable for Knox as it has been for some others. IB. iii. 378. LB. ii. 379. Works, iii. 394. Works, iii. 376. Works, iii. 378. However, when once they were married, I imagine he and Marjorie Bowes hit it off together comfortably enough.
The Boers in their cross-country trekking go, as one of their prisoners observed, 'slap-bang at everything, and as they are past-masters in the art of ox and mule driving, and have such a knowledge of the country that they can trek as well by night as by day, it says much for the energy of Knox and his men that he was able for a fortnight to keep in close touch with them.
It was not perhaps the fault of Knox or his influence that a man should be sentenced to be hanged for the rough horseplay of a Robin Hood performance, or because he was "Lord of Inobedience" or "Abbot of Unreason," like Adam Woodcock; but the extraordinary exaggeration of a society which could think such a punishment reasonable is very curious.
Such is our earliest account; there is no mention of a promise broken by the Regent. Knox himself wrote two separate and not always reconcilable accounts of the first revolutionary explosion; one in a letter of June 23 to Mrs. This part of the "History," therefore, as the work of an advocate, needs to be checked, when possible, by other authorities.
He mounted the bank and began to examine the trunk of one of the trees, whilst I watched him in growing astonishment. Presently he turned and looked down at me. "Not a trace, Knox," he murmured; "not a trace. Let us try again." He moved along to the yew adjoining that which he had already inspected, but presently shook his head and passed to the next. Then: "Ah!" he cried. "Come here, Knox!"
So Hooper, after an obstinate struggle, submitted to don the vestments ordered at his consecration; so also Knox, when he was finally worsted in the "kneeling" controversy, submitted to the order though with a very ill grace. The Nonconformists in short may be defined as Puritans who still remained within the pale of the Church.
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