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" For the first five years during our actual civil wars," he writes in the " Appeal," " I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made an history, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only study to... "
The Encyclopędia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and ... - Page 292
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The History of the University of Cambridge: And of Waltham Abbey. With the ...

Thomas Fuller - Cambridge - 1840 - 738 pages
...in " the Appeal," (p. 317,) he says : — " For the first five years, during our actual civil wars, I had little list or leisure to write ; fearing to...could not live to study, who did only study to live. So soon as God's goodness gave me a fixed habitation, I composed my Land of Canaan, or Pisgah Sight."...
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The History of the University of Cambridge: And of Waltham Abbey. With the ...

Thomas Fuller - Cambridge - 1840 - 738 pages
...years, during our actual civil wars, I had little list or leisure to write ; fearing to be made an History, and shifting daily for my safety. All that...could not live to study, who did only study to live. So soon as God's goodness gave me a fixed habitation, I composed my " Land of Canaan, or Pisgah-Sighu"...
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The History of the University of Cambridge: And of Waltham Abbey. With the ...

Thomas Fuller - Cambridge - 1840 - 826 pages
...years, during our actual civil wars, I had little list or leisure to write ; fearing to be made an History, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not lire to study, who did only study to live. So soon as God's goodness gave me a fixed habitation, I...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 84; Volume 90

1908 - 1086 pages
...gathered material for his pen. He does indeed say, " For the first five years of our actual civil war I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to...safety. All that time I could not live to study, who only studied to live " ; yet he has also recorded the fact that he was employed upon his Worthies o/...
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Homes of Old English Writers

Samuel Woolcock Christophers - Authors, English - 1873 - 308 pages
...in his preface to the History of Cambridge, " For the first five years during our actual civil wars I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to...could not live to study who did only study to live." I saw that many of the houses were still standing on which he must have looked as he went to and fro...
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The Life of Thomas Fuller: With Notices of His Books, His Kinsmen ..., Volume 1

John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 904 pages
...promised ecclesiastical history : " For the first five years, during our actual civil wars [1643-7] , I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to...not live to study, who did only study to live.",* We can, therefore, best follow him during the first year or so of this period by continuing to trace...
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In and Out of London: Or, The Half-holidays of a Town Clerk

William John Loftie - London (England) - 1875 - 272 pages
...by moderate men, and loved by all. He says : "For the first five years during our actual civil wars, I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to...my safety. All that time I could not live to study, but did only study to live." Yet during this time he projected and in part composed his works, the...
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 8

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1880 - 430 pages
...interesting. " For the first five years during our actual civil wars," he writes in the " Appeal," " I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made an history, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only...
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 8

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1880 - 444 pages
...interesting. " For the first five years during our actual civil wars," he writes in the " Appeal," " I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made an history, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only...
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The Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller, D.D., the Church Historian ...

Morris Joseph Fuller - Clergy - 1884 - 552 pages
...by moderate men, and loved by all. He says, " For the first five years during our actual Civil Wars, I had little list or leisure to write, fearing to...my safety. All that time I could not live to study, but did only study to live." Yet during this time he projected and in part composed his works — the...
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