The Washingtons' English Home: And Other Stories of BiographyD. Lothrop, 1884 - 139 pages |
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The Washingtons English Home, and Other Stories of Biography (Classic Reprint) Rose Georgina Kingsley No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 82 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Page 103 - We have brought you a branch of May. A branch of May we have brought you, And at your door it stands; It is but a sprout, But it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands. The hedges and trees they are so green, As green as any leek ; Our heavenly Father he watered them With his heavenly dew so sweet. The heavenly gates are open wide, Our paths are beaten plain ; And if a man be not too far gone, He may return again. The life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower; We are here...
Page 85 - Elmer, who teacheth me, so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him.
Page 82 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes, with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name, for the...
Page 116 - Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year: and to that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — I owe, not only a knowledge of the book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.
Page 113 - ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly
Page 87 - England) that one maid should go beyond you all in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues. Point forth six of the best given gentlemen of this court, and all they together show not so much good will, spend not so much time, bestow not so many hours daily, orderly, and constantly, for the increase of learning and knowledge, as doth the Queen's Majesty herself.
Page 103 - We have been rambling all this night, And almost all this day, And now, returned back again, We have brought you a branch of May. A branch of May we have brought you, And at your door it stands; It is but a sprout, but it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands.
Page 86 - Her mind has no womanly weakness, her perseverance is equal to that of a man, and her memory long keeps what it quickly picks up.
Page 88 - Point forth six of the best given gentlemen of this court, and all they together show not so much good will, spend not so much time, bestow not so many hours daily, orderly, and constantly for the increase of learning and knowledge as doth the queen's majesty herself. Yea...