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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. "
The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages - Page 192
by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1889
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Society, Its Progress and Prospects, and the Influence of American Example ...

John W. Fowler - 1843 - 60 pages
...this, goes on to improve upon the hint, and calls his work " Biscuits baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church,...the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." About the same time, to heighten the spirit and fervor of religion, there was issued a book with the...
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United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 13

1843 - 708 pages
...Hook veil tempered for the stubborn Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baked in the oven of Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church,...Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.1'' To another we have the following copious description : "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul...
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The Anglican Church: The Creature and Slave of the State Being a Refutation ...

Peter Cooper - 1844 - 278 pages
...pulpit was of stone] where I now stand, I have brought you some biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade...
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The Anglican Church the creature and slave of the State, a series of lectures

Peter Cooper - 1844 - 280 pages
...pulpit was of stone] where I now stand, I have brought you some biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church,...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade...
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Sketches of the Reformation and Elizabethan Age: Taken from the ..., Volume 5

John Oliver Willyams Haweis - 1844 - 348 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 sparrows of the spirit, the sweet swallows of salvation." * I am not sure that this was so remarkable as it might seem. When...
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The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ ..., Volume 4

Thomas Fuller - 1845 - 488 pages
...stage where I now stand r, I have brought " you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of cha" rity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of " the...the Spirit, and the " sweet swallows of salvation." If England in our memory hath been sensible of a perfective alteration in her churches, if since she...
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Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 pages
...orations of the latter, by those of the Graces. title; '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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...now stand, I have brought you aome fine bucuite, baked in the oven of charity, carefully cwif-erved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." " Which way of preaching,** says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, *' waft then mostly in fashion,...
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Our English Bible

1799 - 230 pages
...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, and carefully conserved...of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation !'" CHAPTER V. THE GREAT BIBLE. CROMWELL, earl of Essex, for some time the chief minister and favourite...
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Anecdotes of the Puritans

Joseph Alden - 1849 - 188 pages
...the mount of St. Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuit, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." By the " stony stage" he meant the finely-' carved stone pulpit. The style of preaching, of which the...
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