 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 sidor
...now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of cha^ lity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." MARSHAL SAXE, THIS gallant officer, a few weeks after the brilliant campaign of 1746, used to drive... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 sidor
...I now stand, 1 have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sv.eet swallows of salvation." Ur. Arrowsmith, in a sermon before the house of commons, January 25,... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 sidor
...the stony stage where I now stand, ' I have brought you some fine biscuits carefully conserved • for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, ' and the sweet swallows of salvation.' — GIBBON'S Rhetoric, p. 17. The Spectator humorously describes the abuse of figurative Eloquence,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 sidor
...the following elaborate one ; " Some fine baskets 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." Sometimes their quaintness has some humour. One Sir Humphrey Lind, a zealous puritan, published a work... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 sidor
...now stand, I have brought you some fint 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." '* Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, " was tlieii mostly in fashion,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 532 sidor
...stand, I have brought you some fine hiskets, haked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." This style was much admired in his days even by the generality of the scholars, and indeed such alliteration... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 852 sidor
...stand, I have brought you som« fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity. lity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." * Very few years elapsed before the general serenity of the kingdom allowed leisure for study; and... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - 1813 - 494 sidor
...brought you some fine b-skets, baked in the oven of " charity, and carefully conserved for the chickins of the " church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows " of salvation."* This way of preaching was then mostly fashionable, and commended by the generality of scholars * Wood... | |
 | John Walker - 1813 - 1014 sidor
...stond, I have brought you some fyne " biskets baked in the oven of Charitie, carefully conserved " for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the spirit, " and the sweet swallowes of Salvation, &c." " He was some time of Cardinal College in Oxford, afterwards M. of Arts,... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - 1813 - 498 sidor
...brought you some fine biskets, baked in the oven of * ( charity, and carefully conserved for the chickins of the " church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows *^ of salvation."t This way of preaching was then mostly fashionable, and commended by the generality of... | |
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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. 
