 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 pages
...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." MARSHAL SAXE. THIS gallant officer, a -few weeks after the brilliant campaign of 1 746, used to drive... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...stony stage* where I now stand, 1 have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sv.eet swallows of salvation." Ur. Arrowsmith, in a sermon before the house of commons, January 25,... | |
 | Rev. John Walker - 1806 - 302 pages
...stony stage* where I now stand, I have brought you some fyne bisketts baked in the oven of charitie, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallowes of salvation, &c." * St. Mary's pulpit was then of fine carved ashler stone, joining to the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...of these works bears the following elaborate one ; " Some fine baskets baked in the oven of charity; carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." Sometimes their quaintness has some humour. One Sir Humphrey Lind, a zealous puritan, published a work... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 pages
...' Mount of St. Mary, in the stony stage where I now stand, ' I have brought you some fine biscuits carefully conserved • for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, ' and the sweet swallows of salvation.' — GIBBON'S Rhetoric, p. 17. The Spectator humorously describes the abuse of figurative Eloquence,... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 pages
...I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity ; they were carefully preserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." Such was the language, so unbefittirtg the place. and occasion, of a gentleman of property and family,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 608 pages
...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charitv, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." " Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, " was there mostly in fashion,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fim biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." " Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the; homily, " \v;is then mostly in fashion,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1809 - 434 pages
...mount of St., Mary in the stony stdge " where I now stand, I have brought you some " fine biskets, baked in the oven of charity, and " carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet " swallows of salvation." We. may judge likewise of the state of learning at that time among the clergy, from the accounts still... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 802 pages
...stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity. rity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." * Very few years elapsed before the general serenity of the kingdom allowed leisure for stndy; and... | |
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at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation. 
