| Bath guide - 1812 - 200 pages
...Oliver King. It is said that tohis^prelate, when at Bath, one night as he lay musing on his bed, fancied he saw the Holy: Trinity, with Angels ascending-,...descending by a ladder, near to which was a fair olive crown; This- vision made so strong, an impression on the bishop,, that he thought to- have heard a... | |
| James Sargant Storer - 1814 - 444 pages
...this vision : — " The bishop baring been at Batht imagined, as he one night lay meditating in bed, that he saw the Holy Trinity, with angels, ascending and descending by a ladder, near to which there was a fair olive tree, supporting a crown ; the impression was so strong, that the bishop thought... | |
| 1822 - 818 pages
...Oliver King, then bishop of the diocese, who is related to have seen, during a midnight meditation, the Holy Trinity, with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, near which was a fair olive tree suyporting a crown : the good prelate hearing at the same time a voice... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 682 pages
...Harrington, after his devotions for the prosperity of Henry the Seventh and his children, in this wise : — He saw the Holy Trinity, with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, near to which was a fair olive-tree supporting a crown, and a voice said, "Let an olive establish the crown, and let a king... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...finished in 1532. During a midnight meditation, the legend states the Bishop to have seen, in a vision, the Holy Trinity, with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, near which was a fair olive-tree, supporting a crown ; at the same time, he heard a voice say, " Let an... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...diocese, who, it is asserted, was prompted to the good work by a vision he beheld in his sleep, wherein he saw the Holy Trinity with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, to which was a fair olive-tree supporting a crown. This dream the prelate construed into a command... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...diocese, who, it is asserted, was prompted to the good work by a vision he beheld in his slcep, wherein he saw the Holy Trinity with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, to a fair olive-trce supporting a erown. This dream the prelate construcd into a command from Heaven... | |
| Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...diocese, who, it is asserted, was prompted to the good work by a vision he beheld in his sleep, wherein ho saw the Holy Trinity with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, to a fair olive-tree supporting a crown. This dream the prelate construed into a command from Heaven... | |
| 1856 - 586 pages
...diocese, who, it is asserted, was prompted to the good work by a vision he beheld in his sleep, wherein he saw the Holy Trinity with angels ascending and descending by a ladder, to which was a fair olive-tree supporting a crown. This dream the prelate construed into a command... | |
| Edward Robert Kelly - 1875 - 584 pages
...which is thus related by Sir John Harington: — "That as the bishop one night lay meditating in bed he saw the Holy Trinity, with .angels, ascending and descending by a ladder, near to which was a fair olive-tree supporting a crown : " this vision is represented on the west front of the building. The... | |
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