Example sentences of "letter to the bishop " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to the bishop he stated that he intended to appoint himself lay reader for the parish , to stick to the King James Bible and the Cranmer Prayer Book and to preach to himself ( and the sheep ) High Tory sermons ; so please would His Grace tell the neighbours to go stick their heads in their fonts . |
| 2 | Provoked by a sermon issued in January 1793 entitled The Wisdom and Goodness of God in having made both Rich and Poor , which was an attack on the French Revolution by Richard Watson , Bishop of Llandaff , Wordsworth countered with A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the Extraordinary Avowal of his Political Principles … by A Republican . |
| 3 | But it is to be noted that the only doctrine of Rousseau 's which Wordsworth uses directly after his return from France is that of ‘ the general will ’ — the ‘ will of the people ’ had produced the French Revolution , as Wordsworth explained in his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff . |
| 4 | John Wesley could admire the correctness with which " an unlearned tinner speaks extemporare " , but more typical of his class was the reaction of one of his opponents in a letter to the Bishop of Exeter . |
| 5 | Do not mention her name again or send angry letters to the Bishop . ’ |