The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 231
. He expired, at length, on the 30th ofMay, 1778, at the age of 84 years, 3 months, and 8 days. VOLTAIRE. [fiance. The priests who attended during his illness were not ableto draw from him any abjuration of his principles, orthe acknowledgment of J. C. They refused to inter himin holy ground. One… … WICKLIFFE England, that long happily escaped the scourge ofheresy and theological disputes, gave birth to JohnWickliffe, the celebrated precursor of John Hus, one ofthe reformers of the 16th century. He was born atWickliffe, in Yorkshire, about the year 1324. Havingcompleted his studies at Oxford,…
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