Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Nide 11Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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Sivu 14
... never wilfully fail in point of truth , nor offend by malice or partiality . My memory , I thank God , is yet very perfect as to things long past , although , like an old man , I retain but little of what hath happened since I grew into ...
... never wilfully fail in point of truth , nor offend by malice or partiality . My memory , I thank God , is yet very perfect as to things long past , although , like an old man , I retain but little of what hath happened since I grew into ...
Sivu 21
... never failed to make one , in hopes thereby to be taken notice of by my command- ers , for I had nothing to recommend me except my activity , diligence , and courage , being a stranger and born out of that kingdom . My first action ...
... never failed to make one , in hopes thereby to be taken notice of by my command- ers , for I had nothing to recommend me except my activity , diligence , and courage , being a stranger and born out of that kingdom . My first action ...
Sivu 22
... never discover him . We reached Colross at night , where I directed the ensign , and all the men , to secure three or four rebels who were in the place , while I , with two or three of the soldiers to assist me , went to Stobo's house ...
... never discover him . We reached Colross at night , where I directed the ensign , and all the men , to secure three or four rebels who were in the place , while I , with two or three of the soldiers to assist me , went to Stobo's house ...
Sivu 25
... never been at their meetings before . friend and I acquainted the two lairds with the whole adventure of that day : and , after dinner , Pocammock requested to let him have the horse home , thereby to stifle any reflection his lady ...
... never been at their meetings before . friend and I acquainted the two lairds with the whole adventure of that day : and , after dinner , Pocammock requested to let him have the horse home , thereby to stifle any reflection his lady ...
Sivu 26
... never to go to a conventicle again , I would bestow her the horse , and conceal what had passed ; she readily complied , and so the matter was made up . However , the laird her husband assured me , that no horse in Scotland should be ...
... never to go to a conventicle again , I would bestow her the horse , and conceal what had passed ; she readily complied , and so the matter was made up . However , the laird her husband assured me , that no horse in Scotland should be ...
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acquaintance afterwards amongst answer army asked Aylesbury prison Bridewell brought called captain charge Clavers command constable covenanters Creichton desired discourse door dragoons duke earl earl of Dumbarton earl of Feversham Edinburgh Edward Burrough Ellwood enemy evil father favour fell followed friend Isaac gaol gave gentlemen George Whitehead give gone Guli hand hath heard heart honour horse Isaac Penington John justice Kilsyth king knew laird leave liberty lived London lord Dundee Mary Penington master meeting miles mind mittimus morning night occasion Oxfordshire party pleased pretty prison Quakers rebels received regiment returned Rickmansworth ride Scotland sent soon spake spirit staid stood suffer thee thereof thither Thomas Thomas Ellwood Thomas Hicks thou thought told took town truth unto walk Wherefore whereupon wife William William Penn Wycombe
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Sivu 15 - ... of the flippant remark of Lord Orford), were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach as a crown and sceptre. There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent.
Sivu 141 - I modestly but freely told him : and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found...
Sivu 94 - At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me, if I would have the benefit of the Latin tongue, not only to read and understand Latin authors, but to converse with foreigners, either abroad or at home, I must learn the foreign pronunciation.
Sivu 7 - Book:" but from my mother, who had stored up the literature of a country town, which, about half a century ago, amounted to little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden Bull, and the Bloody Gardener, and many other histories equally instructive and amusing.
Sivu 51 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Sivu 94 - ... such accommodations .as might be most suitable to my future studies. I went, therefore, and took myself a lodging as near to his house (which was then in...
Sivu 6 - I mention this in this place, because the continuation of that acquaintance and friendship having been an occasional means of my being afterwards brought to the knowledge of the blessed Truth, I shall have frequent cause, in the course of the following discourse, to make honourable mention of that family, to which I am under so many and great obligations.
Sivu 118 - for our word, which we have given, is our keeper." Some thereupon would advise us not to go to prison, but to go home. But we told them we could not do so; we could suffer for our testimony, but could not fly from it. I do not remember we had any abuse offered us, but were generally pitied by the people.
Sivu 6 - I suppose his father was now dead, for he became possessed of two small estates, married my mother, -j- (the daughter of a carpenter at Ashburton,) and thought himself rich enough to set up for himself; which he did with some credit, at South Molton. Why he chose to fix there, I never inquired; but I learned from my mother, that after a residence of four or five years he was again thoughtless enough to engage in a dangerous frolic, which drove him once more to sea.
Sivu 141 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed, and become safely habitable again, he returned thither. And when afterwards I went to wait on him there, which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he shewed me his second poem, called