Through Colonial DoorwaysJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1893 - 237 ページ |
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74 ページ - Tis God alone, Almighty Lord, The Holy One by me adored. JOHN BARTRAM, 1770.
142 ページ - 11 keep fifteen. I wish this rubbish (the sketch) were away; I might put written rubbish in its stead. Not that I have anything to say, but that I always remember you and yours, and honest Mac, and Wharton, and Lewis, and kind fellows who have been kind to me. and I hope will be kind to me again. Good-by, my dear Reed, and believe me ever sincerely yours, WM THACKERAY.
71 ページ - ... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life.
141 ページ - I have only begun to work ten days since, and now, in consequence, have little leisure. Before, since my return from the West, it was flying from London to Paris, and vice versa — dinners right and left— parties every night. If I had been in Philadelphia, I could scarcely have been more feasted.
187 ページ - You can have no idea of the life of continued amusement I live in. I can scarce have a moment to myself I have stole this while everybody is retired to dress for dinner. I am but just come from under Mr. J. Black's hands and most elegantly am I dressed for a ball this evening at Smith's where we have one every Thursday. You would not know the room 'tis so much improv'd. 232 JEWISH PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS I wish to Heaven you were going with us this evening to judge for yourself!
162 ページ - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners ! 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
140 ページ - Plutonia,'' whither poor, kind old Peter has vanished. So that Saturday I was to have dined with him, and Mrs. Peter wrote, saying he was ill with influenza : he was in bed with his last illness, and there were to be no more Whister parties for him. Will Whister himself, hospitable, pigtailed shade, welcome him to Hades ? And will they sit down — no, stand up — to a ghostly supper, devouring the...
134 ページ - The conversation is generally literary or scientific, and as the party is usually very large, it can be varied at pleasure. Philosophers eat like other men, and the precaution of an excellent supper is by no means found to be superfluous. It acts, too, as a gentle emollient on the acrimony of debate. No man can say a harsh thing with h'is mouth full .of turkey, and disputants forget their differences in unity of enjoyment.
8 ページ - His Excellency and Mrs. Greene danced upwards of three hours without once sitting down. Upon the whole we had a pretty little frisk.
26 ページ - The Knights of the Blended Rose, by me their Herald, proclaim and assert that the Ladies of the Blended Rose excel in wit, beauty and every accomplishment those of the whole world; and should any Knight or Knights be so hardy as to dispute or deny it, they are ready to enter the lists with them and maintain their assertions by deeds of arms, according to the laws of ancient chivalry.