621 The creation of the world beginning to be distant, God provided a single contemporary historian, and appointed a whole people as guardians of this book, in order that this history might be the most authentic in the world, and that all men might thereby learn a fact so necessary to know, and which could only be known through that means. — from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Peterborough and Sir Charles Harbord and
So to the office, where all the morning till noon, when word brought me to the Board that my Lord Sandwich was come; so I presently rose, leaving the Board ready to rise, and there I found my Lord Sandwich, Peterborough, and Sir Charles Harbord; and presently after them comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Mr. Sidney, and Sir William Godolphin. — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
The last verse of this ran:— Now times are changed, and we are changed, and Keate has passed away, Still College hearts and College hands maintain old Eton’s sway; And though our chamber is not filled as it was filled of yore, We still will beat the Oppidans at bat and foot and oar, Like the fine old Eton Collegers, Those of the olden time. — from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill
preserver as she called him apothecary
Mr. Pendennis's manners were so uncommonly gentlemanlike and soothing, that her ladyship, the wife of Sir Pepin Ribstone, of Codlingbury, in the county of Somerset, Bart., appointed her preserver, as she called him, apothecary to her person and family, which was very large. — from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
perplexity and she continued half apologetically
A flicker of doubt, however, came to her as she saw the troubled look of the child deepen into an expression of pain and [14] perplexity, and she continued, half apologetically, "I ought not to feel so discouraged, dearie, I know. — from Grandfather's Love Pie by Miriam Gaines
paternal and softly confidential How are
Why, who should be?” 157 Dan didn’t follow up his jealous suspicion, but asked in a tone almost paternal and softly confidential: “How are your finances getting on?” — from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst
protests as she clambered higher and
The wicked Dick fluttered about her head, rasping out his harsh protests, as she clambered higher and higher, but he had wedged his prize so firmly in a crotch that he could not get it out and was forced to see her carry it away. — from The Pool of Stars by Cornelia Meigs
pray and so continued half an
[221] Apparently this same house was concerned in the following strange affair :— “By a lettere dated London, 11 May 1555, it appears that in Powles Churchyearde at the sign of the Hedgehog, the goodwife of the house was brought to bed of a manchild, being of the age of 6 dayes and dienge the 7 th daye followinge; and half an hour before it departed spake these words followinge: (rise and pray) and so continued half an houre in thes words and then cryinge departed the worlde. — from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten
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