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Pagina 191 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Pagina 179 - And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more...
Pagina 191 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Pagina 191 - He kept me to school or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Pagina 137 - Never ; he will not ; Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : Other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her ; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Pagina 62 - Here I am, Riding upon a black ram, Like a whore as I am ; And for my crincum crancum, Have lost my bincum bancum; And for my tail's game Have done this worldly shame ; Therefore I pray you, Mr. Steward, let me have my land again.
Pagina 132 - I had thrown off the hangers a little before, — strikes off a skirt of a thick-laced satin doublet I had, lined with four taffatas, cuts off two panes embroidered with pearl, rends through the drawings-out of tissue, enters the linings, and skips the flesh.
Pagina 182 - If this were so (says Dr. Fuller} it was a Favour in a hot Summer to the Females of that Family, and would spare, them the use of a Fan.
Pagina 160 - With these she through the welkin flies, And sometimes carries truth, oft lies; , With letters hung, like eastern pigeons, And Mercuries of furthest regions; Diurnals writ for regulation Of lying, to inform the nation, And by their public use to bring down The rate of whetstones* in the kingdom.
Pagina 198 - Charles's reign were busy in finding out the art of flying. The famous Bishop Wilkins was so confident of success in it, that he says he does not question but in the next age it will be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going a journey, as it is now to call for his boots. The humour so prevailed among the virtuosos of this reign, that they were actually making parties to go up to the moon together, and were more put to it in their thoughts how to meet with accommodations by the...