Quaker Biographies: A Series of Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, Concerning Members of the Society of Friends, from the Seventeenth Century to More Recent Times ; with IllustrationsFor sale at Friends' Book Store, 1912 |
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الصفحة 167 - We are commanded to let our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father which is in heaven.
الصفحة 90 - 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 90 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
الصفحة 90 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalford, which before I had not thought of.
الصفحة 59 - Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment...
الصفحة 87 - ... read to him in such books in the Latin tongue, as he pleased to hear me read. " At my first sitting to read to him...
الصفحة 86 - This person, having filled a public station in the former times, lived now a private and retired life in London; and, having wholly lost his sight, kept always a man to read to him, which usually was the son of some gentleman of his acquaintance, whom in kindness he took to improve in his learning.
الصفحة 87 - He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement, but all the help he could. For, having a curious ear, he understood hy my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not; and accordingly would stop me, examine me, and open the most difficult passages to me.
الصفحة 70 - Crowell, he went one day to visit them there, and to return at night, taking me with him. But very much surprised we were when, being come thither, we first heard, then found, they were become Quakers ; a people we had no knowledge of, and a name we had till then scarce heard of.
الصفحة 87 - He received me courteously, as well for the sake of Dr. Paget, who introduced me, as of Isaac Penington, who recommended me; to both whom he bore a good respect. And having inquired divers things of me with respect to my former progression in learning, he dismissed me to provide myself of such accommodations as might be most suitable to my future studies.