Shreds and Patches of History: Found Mostly in VirginiaThe Roycrofters, 1906 - 100 páginas |
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Página 90 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Página 11 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping-pans and their chamber-pots are pure gold ; and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold ; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold ; and for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather...
Página 11 - 11 have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their drippingpans ... are pure gold ; and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold ; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold ; and for rubies and diamonds they go forth on holidays and gather 'em by the seashore to hang on their children's coats, and stick in their children's caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron-gilt brooches and groats with holes in 'em.
Página 46 - Within this tomb there doth interred lie, No shape but substance, true nobility, Itself though young in years, just twenty-nine, Yet grac'd with virtues morall and divine, The church from him did good participate. In counsell rare fit to adorn a state.
Página 102 - They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of Death is near.
Página 55 - Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses : I have in my hand a paper, published by order of your House, conceived in such terms, as reflect highly upon his majesty, and the Parliament of Great Britain, which makes it necessary for me to dissolve you, and you are dissolved accordingly.
Página 38 - Mamma thinks Molly the Comliest Maiden She Knows. She is about 16 yrs old, is taller than Me, is verry Sensable, Modest and Loving. Her Hair is like unto Flax, Her Eyes are the color of Yours and her Chekes are like May blossoms. I wish you could see her.
Página 22 - ... Every Sunday, when the Lord Governor went to church, he was accompanied with all the Councillors, Captains, other officers, and all the gentlemen, and with a guard of fifty Halberdiers in his Lordship's Livery, fair red cloaks, on each side and behind him. The Lord Governor sat in the choir, in a green velvet chair, with a velvet cushion before him on which he knelt...
Página 11 - You may come to preferment enough, ... to riches and fortune enough, and have never the more villainy nor the less wit. Besides, there we shall have no more law than conscience, and not too much of either ; serve God enough, eat and drink enough, and enough is as good as a feast.
Página 59 - Hall assembled, humbly beg leave to represent to your Excellency that the inhabitants of this city were this morning exceedingly alarmed by a report that a large quantity of gunpowder was, in the preceding night, while they were sleeping in their beds, removed from the...