The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll. by W. Oxberry, Volume 3William Oxberry 1821 |
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... received a greater power and latitude to err ; and that I durst not trust my judgment so far as that I would presume to answer for all events , in such factious and tur- bulent times , and therefore again did humbly desire new in ...
... received a greater power and latitude to err ; and that I durst not trust my judgment so far as that I would presume to answer for all events , in such factious and tur- bulent times , and therefore again did humbly desire new in ...
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... received much satisfaction concerning my carriage , as finding I had preserved his honor and interest in all great affairs then emergent in France , Germany , and other parts of Christendom ; which work being of great concernment I ...
... received much satisfaction concerning my carriage , as finding I had preserved his honor and interest in all great affairs then emergent in France , Germany , and other parts of Christendom ; which work being of great concernment I ...
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... received the ring . It was already almost midnight , and Gardiner , as he stole out of his house , stopped to look at the moon's rainbow , then deemed a rare and awful omen . " Alice of Huntingdon is busy , " he said , with a ghastly ...
... received the ring . It was already almost midnight , and Gardiner , as he stole out of his house , stopped to look at the moon's rainbow , then deemed a rare and awful omen . " Alice of Huntingdon is busy , " he said , with a ghastly ...
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... Frenchman thinking it in vain to shew his resentment for the unexpected chastisement he had received , to a mas- ter surrounded by his scholars , and exposed to their 30 FLOWERS OF LITERATURE ; bers, and though I was loth to think I ...
... Frenchman thinking it in vain to shew his resentment for the unexpected chastisement he had received , to a mas- ter surrounded by his scholars , and exposed to their 30 FLOWERS OF LITERATURE ; bers, and though I was loth to think I ...
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... THE DREAMERS . Sir William Johnson , who was superintendant of Indian affairs in America previous to the revolution , received some suits of clothes from England richly laced , when Hendrick 34 FLOWERS OF LITERATURE ;
... THE DREAMERS . Sir William Johnson , who was superintendant of Indian affairs in America previous to the revolution , received some suits of clothes from England richly laced , when Hendrick 34 FLOWERS OF LITERATURE ;
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Page 90 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 295 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 12 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 12 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, (for it was like nothing on earth,) which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Page 189 - He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese; he is never from his cure; ye shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever in his parish; he keepeth residence at all times; ye shall never find him out of the way: call for him when you will, he is ever at home; the diligentest preacher in all the realm; he is ever at his plough...
Page 12 - ... as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book. This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came...
Page 90 - His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
Page 92 - States. I sent you the pipe — it resembled this— and I sent it by the Missouri, that the Indians of the Mississippi might not know what we were doing. You received it I then told you that your friends should be my friends — that your enemies should be my enemies — and that I only awaited your signal to make war. If this be the conduct of an enemy, I shall never be your friend.
Page 103 - Instead of being covered with a cloud of sorrow — my warriors would have felt the sunshine of joy in their hearts. To me it would have been a most glorious occurrence. Hereafter, when I die at home, instead of a noble grave and a grand procession, the rolling music and the thundering cannon, with a...
Page 226 - The gentry and citizens had little learning of any kind, and their way of breeding up their children was suitable to the rest. They were as severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as...