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Richard Hooker

 

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Richard Hooker : Works

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker : Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie

'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his sake.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker : Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity

'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Thence I to my new bookseller's and there bought Hookers "Policy", the new edition, and Dugdale's history of the Inn's of Court, of which there was but a few saved out of the Fire - and Playford's new sketch-book, that hath a great many new fooleries in it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Richard Hooker [?] : [unknown]

'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

 

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