| Louisa Parr - 1872 - Страниц: 368
...many lives in jeopardy, until the pious Dynecourt — Fulk Dynecourt — was admonished by a vision to set on the foundation of a bridge near a rock which he should find rolled from the higher grounds upon the strand, and in the morning he found a rock there fixed, which... | |
| John Denison Champlin - 1886 - Страниц: 326
...be found, their attempt in that kind came to no effect." At last, one Richard Gurney, parish priest, "was admonished by a vision in his sleep to set on the foundation of a bridg, near a rock which he should find, rouled from the higher grounds upon the strand. This at first... | |
| Lucia Glidden Strong, Mrs. Lucia Mabel Glidden Strong - 1925 - Страниц: 474
...to set it on. At length one Richard Gornard, priest of the place, was admonished by a vision to lay the foundation of a Bridge near a rock, which he should find rolled from the higher grounds upon the strand. This he esteemed as a dream ; but upon inquiry, finding... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1927 - Страниц: 856
...Risdon (about 1630), who says : " The inhabitants did divers times, and in sundry places, begin to build a bridge ; but no firm foundation, after often...find rowled from the higher grounds upon the strand." Risdon's contemporary, Westcote, gives practically the same story, and they are followed by Prince,... | |
| Victor Clinton Clinton-Baddeley - 1928 - Страниц: 332
...found, their attempt in that kind came to no effect. At this time Sir Richard Gornard . . . was parish priest of the place ; who, as the story of that town...vision in his sleep, to set on the foundation of a bridg, near a rock which he should find, rouled from the higher grounds upon the strand. This at first... | |
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