But in liberality they excel; nothing is too good for their friend: give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks: light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent: the most merry creatures that live, feast and... Scribner's Popular History of the United States - Stran 491avtor: William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1910 - 104 strani
...wives, who died a natural death: for till widowers have done so, they must not marry again. * * * "BUT IN LIBERALITY they excel. Nothing is too good for...light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent: the most merry creatures that live: they feast and dance perpetually; they never have much, nor want much.... | |
| 1910 - 372 strani
...Penn thus describes them: "But for Hberality(27) they excel, nothing is too good for their friends, give them a fine gun, coat or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks, the most merry creatures that live, feast and dance perpetually, they never have much nor want much,... | |
| 1910 - 406 strani
...thus describes them: "But for liberality (27) th«y "jccel. nothing Is too good for their friends, give them a fine gun, coat or other thing, It may pass twenty hands before it sticks, the most merry creatures that live, feast and dance perpetually, they never have much nor want much,... | |
| Gustav Spiller - 1911 - 520 strani
...Christians, who have propagated their vices and yielded them traditions for ill, and not for good things. ... In liberality they excel, nothing is too good for...of heart, strong affections, but soon spent ; the most merry creatures, that live, feast, and dance perpetually ; they never have much, nor want much... | |
| Charles Franklin Warwick - 1913 - 454 strani
...they should defile it; nor do their husbands frequent them, till that time be expired. XIX. "Biit, in liberality they excel; nothing is too good for...light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent. The most merry creatures that live, feast and dance perpetually ; they never have much, nor want much :... | |
| National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Pennsylvania - 1914 - 330 strani
...rose colored, that part of it must be quoted here. Writing to the Society of Free Traders, he says: "In liberality they excel; nothing is too good for their friend ; give them a- fine gun, coat, or anything, and it may pass twenty hands before it sticks. Light of heart, strong affections, but soon... | |
| Rupert Sargent Holland - 1915 - 206 strani
...of beans and peas that are good nourishment : and the woods and rivers are their larder. . . . "But in liberality they excel. Nothing is too good for...of heart, strong affections, but soon spent : the most merry creatures that live: they feast and dance perpetually; they never have much, nor want much.... | |
| John Thomson Faris - 1916 - 328 strani
...else they will go away sullen, but say nothing. Here is another statement : In Liberality they excell, nothing is too good for their friend ; give them a...light of Heart, strong Affections, but soon spent; the most merry Creatures that live. Feast and Dance perpetually ; they never have much, nor want much.... | |
| William Nelson, Charles Anthony Shriner - 1920 - 442 strani
...for nothing was too good for a friend," says the historian Samuel Smith, paraphrasing William Penn. "Give them a fine Gun, Coat, or other thing, it may...light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent; the most merry Creatures that live, Feast and Dance perpetually; they never have much, nor want much ;... | |
| Francis Samuel Drake - 1927 - 506 strani
...and the rest are supplied by the understanding of the hearers. I have made it my business to learn it that I might not want an interpreter on any occasion....In case they kill a woman, they pay double; and the reason they render is that she breedeth children, which the man cannot do. It is rare they fall out,... | |
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