 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 Seiten
...his breviary and his pontifical. For this he passed into a proverb with the people, who would say, " new that only hard work could enable him to make the best use of his genius, h But when Tyndal's New Testament was ready, traders from Leith, Dundee, and Montrose smuggled copies... | |
 | James Maclehose - 1914 - 494 Seiten
...but that Forret might preach ' if he found a good gospel or epistle.' Then he proceeded, ' stoutly, I thank God that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament was ; therefore, dear Thomas, I will know nothing 258 The Pre-Reformation Principals but my Portuus and... | |
 | Henry Cowan - 1905 - 526 Seiten
...Foxe, Acts and Monuments, v., 622 (Townsend's ed.). He states that out of the incident a proverb arose in Scotland, "Ye are like the Bishop of Dunkeld that knew neither old nor new law." Cf. Lyndsay, Satyre of the Three Estaites, 1. 2920-2922, where the "Spirituality"... | |
 | George Christie - 1908 - 342 Seiten
...a famous confession from the side of the Bishop. Then spake my lord stoutlie, and said, " I thanke God, that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament was ! Therefore, Deane Thomas, I will know nothing but my portuise (ie , breviary) and my pontificall !... | |
 | David Hay Fleming - 1910 - 742 Seiten
...Writings, Parker Society, pp. xvii. ISO, 151. NEW TESTAMENT SHUNNED 93 answer gave rise to the proverb, " Ye are like the Bishop of Dunkeld that knew neither the new law nor trie old law."1 According to George Buchanan such was the general ignorance that many of the priests,... | |
 | Allan Menzies - 1911 - 796 Seiten
...hardly know the order of the alphabet" (p. 42). The familiar story of Bishop Creichton of Dunkeld having said " I thank God that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament were. ... I will know nothing but my portuese (breviary) and my pontifical " is first mentioned by... | |
 | John Knox - 1950 - 496 Seiten
...Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld, in an interview with Thomas Forret, Vicar of Dollar, is reported to have said : " I thank God, that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament were ! Therefore, Dean Thomas, I will know nothing but my portuise [breviary] and my pontifical." Of... | |
 | William Murison - 1890 - 254 Seiten
...Thomas Forret, who said he had read the New Testament and the Old. Thereupon the Bishop declared : I thank God that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament was. Therefore, Dean Thomas, I will know nothing but my Portuise and my Pontifical. Hence arose a proverb... | |
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Of these words arose a proverb, which is common in Scotland: "Ye are like the Bishop of Dunkeld, that knew neither the New Law nor the Old Law. 
