Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, المجلد 11Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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الصفحة vii
... favours . " Then Dr Swift replied , " Sir , I have heard much of your adventures ; that they are fresh in your memory ; you can tell them with great humour ; and that you have taken memorandums of them in writing . " To which the ...
... favours . " Then Dr Swift replied , " Sir , I have heard much of your adventures ; that they are fresh in your memory ; you can tell them with great humour ; and that you have taken memorandums of them in writing . " To which the ...
الصفحة xi
... favour ; for the memory of old men is seldom deceived in what passed in their youth and vigour of age ; and if he hath , at any time , happened to be mistaken in circumstances of time or place ( with neither of which I can charge him ) ...
... favour ; for the memory of old men is seldom deceived in what passed in their youth and vigour of age ; and if he hath , at any time , happened to be mistaken in circumstances of time or place ( with neither of which I can charge him ) ...
الصفحة 14
... favoured by all ; and God knows it is of little consequence what my opinions are , under such a weight of age and infirmities , with a very scanty subsistence , which , instead of comfort . ing , will hardly support me . But there is ...
... favoured by all ; and God knows it is of little consequence what my opinions are , under such a weight of age and infirmities , with a very scanty subsistence , which , instead of comfort . ing , will hardly support me . But there is ...
الصفحة 20
... favour , desiring he would recommend me to the marquis of Athol , and others , then at the head of affairs in Scot- land ; this was in the year 1674. There were then but one troop of horse guards ( whereof the marquis was colonel ) and ...
... favour , desiring he would recommend me to the marquis of Athol , and others , then at the head of affairs in Scot- land ; this was in the year 1674. There were then but one troop of horse guards ( whereof the marquis was colonel ) and ...
الصفحة 26
... favour , for some preferment in the army upon the first opportunity , which happened about a year afterwards . For the seditious humours in the west still encreasing , it was thought proper , that three independent troops of horse , and ...
... favour , for some preferment in the army upon the first opportunity , which happened about a year afterwards . For the seditious humours in the west still encreasing , it was thought proper , that three independent troops of horse , and ...
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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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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