 | James Davis Knowles - History - 1834 - 454 pages
...or tend to civilizing ; I therefore neither brought, nor shall sell them, loose coats nor breeches. It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be esteemed a tyranny. I taught two young gentlemen, a Parliament man's sons,... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Missionaries - 1834 - 448 pages
...tend to civilizing ; I therefore neither brought, nor shall sell them, loose coats nor breeches. 1 1^ pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be esteemed a tyranny. I taught two young gentlemen, a Parliament man's sons,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 424 pages
...youth. "It pleased the Lord," writes he, in a letter to his friend Winthiop, " to call me for some time to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French,...Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton, for the Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. I taught two young gentlemen, a Parliament man's... | |
 | Mary Clark - Massachusetts - 1836 - 192 pages
...he employed himself as a teacher of youth, especially in the languages. He observes in a letter : " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and with some persons, to practice the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton)... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 374 pages
...work another, and thereby to pay your debts there, and to come over with your credit and honor, as an agent from you, who had in your name grappled with...were audited by the General Assembly, and the sum of £343, 15s. 6d. was found due him, which the Assembly often urged the towns to pay ; but that act of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 428 pages
...charter granted to Mr. Coddington. I give this remarkable passage in the words of this Anglo-American: " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and with...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be esteemed a tyranny. I taught two young gentlemen, a parliament-man's sons,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 426 pages
...charter granted to Mr. Coddington. I give this remarkable passage in the words of this Anglo-American : " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and with...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be esteemed a tyranny. I taught two young gentlemen, a parliament-man's sons,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...granted to Mr. Coddington. I give this remarkable passage in the words of this Anglo-American: — "It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and...Milton, for my Dutch I read him, read me many more Ian" Secretary Milton " at that moment was probably anxious to con the phrases of a Dutch state-paper,... | |
 | 1841 - 534 pages
...of a charter granted to Mr. Coddington." In these memoirs the following memorable passage occurs: " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...French, and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton—for my Dutch I read him— read me many more languages." This very curious literary fact was... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 364 pages
...granted to Mr. Coddington. I give this rcmarkatilt1 passage in the words of this Anglo-Amerio.au :—" It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and with...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. Grammar rules begin to be esteemed a tyranny. I taught two young gentlemen, a parliament-man's sons,... | |
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It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. 
