Up to this time, it was alleged, a liberty had existed of using after sermon, if the preacher were disposed to do so, the "free prayer" which before sermon it was confessedly not permitted him to have-why thus cut off peremptorily an ancient privilege?
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
To the list of defective rubrics add those that are confessedly obsolete and such as are palpably contradictory and we have a bill of particulars that would amply justify a rubrical revision of the Prayer Book even if nothing more were to be attempted.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
The Roman drama was confessedly a reproduction or adaptation of the drama of Athens.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar