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" at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now 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. "
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ... - Page 68
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The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in ..., Volume 1

Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 pages
...stony stage where I now 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...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...stony stage* where I 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,...
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Oxoniana, Volume 4

John Walker - 1807 - 294 pages
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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar

Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 pages
...' Mount of St. Mary, in the 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...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...of these works bears the 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...
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The lounger's common-place book, or, Miscellaneous collections, in ..., Volume 4

Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 pages
...I 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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...stony stage where I now 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,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical ..., Volume 29

Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 532 pages
...stage * where I now 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,...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 852 pages
...stage where I now stand, 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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 1

1814 - 760 pages
...evangelical advice, a sermon beginning with these words. " Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's, m the stony stage where I now stond, I have brought you some fyne...the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit and the sweet swallows of Salvation, &c." ' VI. p. 67. The thirteenth letter, written by Dr. Ilickes, chiefly on...
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