The National Quarterly Review, Volumen14Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1867 |
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Página 70 - About the year 1648, 1649, some of our company being removed to Oxford (first Dr. Wilkins, then I, and soon after Dr. Goddard), our company divided. Those in London continued to meet there as before (and we with them when we had occasion to be there), and those of us at Oxford ; with Dr. Ward (since Bishop of Salisbury), Dr.
Página 92 - Venetian blinds and open verandas, the apartments through which we passed were exceedingly close. A dinner in the largest of them threatened much inconvenience from the heat. But on this score there was no ground for apprehension. The dining-room stood apart from the house, in the midst of orange trees. It was an elegant oblong pavilion, of Grecian marble, refreshed by fountains that " shot in air through scintillating streams ;" and the table, covered with the beautiful and picturesque dessert,...
Página 258 - I will raise men who will have the fear of God before their eyes, and who will bring some conscience to what they do ; and I promise you they shall not be beaten...