If any stranger come in, they presently give him to eate of what they have; many atime, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in travell upon their houses) when nothing hath been ready, have themselves and their wives, risen to prepare me some... Collections - Page 361827Full view - About this book
| Local history - 1827 - 196 pages
...of that which they have, though but little enough prepar'd for themselves. If any provision offish or flesh come in, they make their neighbours partakers...bread and water's most their fare, O Englands diet tine; Thy cup runs ore with plenteous store Of wholesome beare and Wine. '2.. Sometimes God gives them... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...that a man shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing amongst these Barbarians, than amongst thousands that call themselves Christians....particular : 1 Course bread and water's most their fare ; 0 Englands diet fine, Thy cup runs ore with plenteous store Of wholesome beare and wine. 2 Sometimes... | |
| Samuel Lunt Caldwell - Baptists - 1890 - 446 pages
...that a man shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing amongst these Barbarians, than amongst thousands that call themselves Christians....particular : 1 Course bread and water's most their fare ; O Knglands diet fine, Thy cup runs ore with plenteous store Of wholesome beare and wine. 2 Sometimes... | |
| Local history - 1827 - 188 pages
...with them. If any stranger come in, they presently give him to eate of what they have; many a time, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in...refreshing, The observation generall from their eating 8fc. these Barbarians, then amongst thousands that call themselves Christians. More particular: 1.... | |
| Eva March Tappan - American literature - 1907 - 282 pages
...with them. If any stranger come in, they presently give him to eate of what they have; many a tims, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in...their wives, risen to prepare me some refreshing. . . . 174 It is a strange truth that a man shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing... | |
| Hugo Abelard Dubuque - Fall River (Mass.) - 1907 - 110 pages
...that which they have, though but little enough prepared for themselves many a time and all times of night, (as I have fallen in travell upon their houses),...their wives, risen to prepare me some refreshing". "It is a strange truth that a man shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing amongst... | |
| Seymour Dunbar - Frontier and pioneer life - 1915 - 450 pages
...Providence, 1827." "If any stranger come in, they presently give him to eate of what they have; many a time, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in...their wives, risen to prepare me some refreshing. It is a strange truth, that a man shall generally finde more free entertainment and refreshing amongst... | |
| Ivy Schweitzer - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 326 pages
...starved. (101) — and of the voice of the observer, who says in the last observation: "many a time, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in...their wives, risen to prepare me some refreshing" (104). But neither of these instances captures the density of the final poetic line. Calling the natives... | |
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