Life of William Savery of Philadelphia: 1750-1804Macmillan, 1925 - 474 páginas |
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American appeared appointed attended became British called Captain Catholic Century Charles Lamb chiefs Christ Church Commissioners Congénies Continent Cornplanter David Sands dear deism desire Detroit Devonshire House Dillwyn Elizabeth England English evidently feeling France French frequently Germany Gospel Gurney held horses hundred Indians interesting Ireland John Joseph Journal journey King land later Lettsom liam Savery lived London London Yearly Meeting Mary Meeting for Sufferings meeting house mentioned miles mind ministers ministry modern Monthly Meeting never night peace period Philadelphia Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Pickering political poor postilion preached present Pyrmont Quaker records religion religious Revolution River Sarah Savery's seemed sermons Shawanese social Society of Friends spirit Street things Thomas Scattergood thou thought tion told took town travelers Treaty walk William Farrer William Savery William Savery visited women wrote Yearly Meeting young
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Página 389 - So am I!" But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why ? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware.
Página 410 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied, She did inherit.
Página 409 - WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate That...
Página 390 - Not less thro' all bore up, till, last, she saw The white-flower'd elder-thicket from the field Gleam thro' the Gothic archways in the wall. Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity And one low churl, compact of thankless earth, The fatal byword of all years to come, Boring a little...
Página 408 - My heart is quite sunk, and I don't know where to look for relief. Mary will get better again, but her constantly being liable to such relapses is dreadful; nor is it the least of our evils that her case and all our story is so well known around us. We are in a manner marked.
Página 410 - twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied, She did inherit. Her parents held the Quaker rule, Which doth the human feeling cool, But she was trained in Nature's school, Nature had blest her ; A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester.
Página 410 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Página 103 - We desire you to consider, brothers, that our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country. Look back and view the lands from whence we have been driven to this spot. We can retreat no farther...
Página 18 - ... those of other societies. I have often thought there never was so nearly perfect a character within my knowledge in our society, and none that more extensively inculcated and effectually diffused true, practical, Christian principles.
Página 36 - The neighbors being invited, it was a large gathering, and ended well. " The 19th, had a meeting at Mendenhall's : a large number of Methodists and Baptists attended. Two women fell on their knees, and trembled, and shook, and prayed, and exhorted. I could scarcely account for such an extraordinary appearance, as they continued in these agitations some time after meeting broke up.