| Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...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." MARSHAL SAXE. THIS gallant officer, a -few weeks after the brilliant campaign of 1 746, used to drive... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...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,... | |
| Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 pages
...have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity ; they were carefully preserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." Such was the language, so unbefittirtg the place. and occasion, of a gentleman of property and family,... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...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 - Biography - 1816 - 532 pages
...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 - Architecture - 1813 - 852 pages
...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 - Puritans - 1813 - 494 pages
...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 - English letters - 1813 - 342 pages
...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,... | |
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