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" A Gothic bishop perhaps thought it proper to repeat such a form in such particular shoes or slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head and a crosier in his hand. "
Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 97
1903
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 450 pages
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The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the ..., Volume 3

1794 - 450 pages
...slippers; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand. To this a brother Vandal, as wise as the others, adds an antick dress, which he conceived would allude...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...slippers j another fancied, it would be very decent, if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head and a crosier in his hand : to this another added an extravagant garb, which, he conceived, would allude very aptly to such and...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 22

John Britton - 1814 - 1124 pages
...bithop. It consists of a slab of stone supporting the effigy of a boy, habited iu episcopal robes, with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand. At his feet is the figure of a dragon with his head reflext to his tail, probably in allusion to that...
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Select British Classics, Volume 13

1803 - 402 pages
...slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand. To this a brother Vandal, as wise as the others, adds an antic dress, which he conceived would allude...
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Voltairiana. Selected and tr. by M.J. Young, Volume 4

François Marie Arouet de [prose] Voltaire - 1805 - 274 pages
...installed every five years, who was carried about through many towns in a chariot drawn by four horses, with a mitre on his head and a crosier in his hand, dispensing benediction to such cuckolds who applied to him, and giving mandates. XXXIX. KING OF THE...
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The History and Description of the City of Exeter, and Its Environs, Ancient ...

Alexander Jenkins - 1806 - 504 pages
...Choir of his Cathedral, under an altar tomb, erected in 1206, on which his effigy lays at full length, with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand : the whole well executed in grey marble : but no inscription remains. 2 1 st. Simon de Apulia, by...
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 1

1808 - 306 pages
...slippers ; another fancied it would he very decent if such a part of puhlio devotions were performed with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand. To this a hrother Vandal, u wise as the others, adds an autic dress, which JM conceived would allnde...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand : to this a brother Vandal, as wise as the others, adds an antic dress, which he conceived would allude...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...slippers ; another fancied it would be very decent if such a part of public devotions were performed with a mitre on his head, and a crosier in his hand : to this a brother Vandal, as wise as the others, adds an antic dress, which he conceived would allude...
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