 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...fellow-martyr, ' Be of good comfort Doctor Ridley, and play the man : we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.' Thus died bishop Latimer, one of the leaders of that glorious army of martyrs who successfully... | |
 | William Henry Pinnock - England - 1851 - 480 pages
...cried out, ' Be of good comfort, master ' Ridley, and play the man ; we shall this day light 'such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I ' trust shall never be put out.' Bags of gunpowder were fastened to their necks by a relative of Ridley's, which hastened the... | |
 | Stephen D. Eyre, Jacalyn Eyre - Religion - 2000 - 116 pages
...Latimer said, "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." GROUP DISCUSSION. Denial of cherished beliefs is a challenge that each generation of believers... | |
 | Martin Palmer, Nigel Palmer - History - 2000 - 360 pages
...victim and said: "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out." He was referring, of course, to the Protestant Reformarion and the telease to the ordinary people... | |
 | Brian Raynor - Christian martyrs - 2000 - 440 pages
...Nicholas Ridley. He said: 'Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out!' Nicholas Ridley graduated at Cambridge in 1 522, and his name was fourth out of forty-one on... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...Apology ( 1 97) 6 Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. Hugh Latimer, in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1 570) 7 He that will not live a saint can never... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...the verse addressed to Ridley at their burning on 16 October, 1555: 'We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.' A Dutch version is significantly labelled, na de copy van Londe [after the copy in London], and... | |
 | Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - Reference - 2000 - 808 pages
...Worcester (1535-39). good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England as I trust shall never be put out." LAUGHTON, Charles (1899-1962), British character actor and director. 1 Laughton, married to actress... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - History - 2001 - 394 pages
...lit, Latimer said to Ridley, "Be of good comfort, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's Grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." Still another victim went "with a merry courage" toward his fate, barefoot and dressed in an... | |
 | Gregory D. Woods - Criminal justice, Administration of - 2002 - 488 pages
...them guilty of heresy. Latimer is supposed to have said to Ridley: "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out". It never was, and remained part of the mental furniture of educated Englishmen for centuries... | |
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Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. 
