 | Alexander Young - Massachusetts - 1846 - 594 pages
...OF JOHN COTTON. 427 of Ipswich, being ignorant of, spake merrily among CHAP. some of his friends, " Of all men in the world I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston,...I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine." He had many enemies at Boston, as well as many friends, and some that rose up against him, and plotted... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...Ward, of facetious memory, the author of the " Simple Cobbler." He remarked in his pleasant manner, " Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston, most; for he doth nothing by way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty : and I do almost every thing that way, and cannot enjoy... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Biography & Autobiography - 1846 - 314 pages
...Ward, of facetious memory, the author of the " Simple Cobbler." He remarked in his pleasant manner, " Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston, most ; for he doth nothing by way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty : and I do almost every thing that way, and cannot enjoy... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - Boston (England) - 1856 - 886 pages
...remembered how he acted towards others in similar circumstances ; and one of Mr. Cotton's contemporaries4 observes, — " Of all men in the world, I envy Mr....they succeed against him. " Concerning Mr. Cotton's hospitalitv," says HUTCHINSON, " wherein he did exceed all that I ever heard of. His heart and his... | |
 | joel munsell - 1865 - 356 pages
...fpake merrily among fome of his friends : Of all men in the world I envy Mr. Cotton of Bofton moft, for he doth nothing in way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty, and I doe every [247] thing that way and cannot enjoy mine. He had many enemies at Bofton, as well as many... | |
 | John Ward Dean - American literature - 1868 - 228 pages
...that Mr. Ward uttered his facetious saying upon Rev. John Cotton, then of Boston, Lincolnshire : " Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston the most, for he doth nothing in the way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty, and I do everything... | |
 | ALBERT CHRISTOPHER ADDISON - 1912 - 360 pages
...Poor Samuel Ward, minister of Ipswich, could not understand it. "Of all men in the world," he moaned, "I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston most, for he doth nothing...I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine." Plainly, he had not a bishop with the King's ear! It is really surprising, considering the severity... | |
 | Albert Christopher Addison - Boston (Mass.) - 1912 - 362 pages
...Poor Samuel Ward, minister of Ipswich, could not understand it. "Of all men in the world," he moaned, "I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston most, for he doth nothing...I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine." Plainly, he had not a bishop with the King's ear! It is really surprising, considering the seventy... | |
 | Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 462 pages
...seaport of Boston. One of Cotton's English counterparts, Samuel Ward, was frank about his preeminence: "Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston,...I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine." With the fall from influence of the Bishop of Lincoln — who looked the other way when Cotton declined... | |
 | Andrew Delbanco - History - 1991 - 324 pages
...one colleague by his skillful toeing of the line: "Of all the men in the world," said Samuel Ward, "I envy Mr. Cotton, of Boston, most; for he doth nothing...I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine." The elasticity of the Puritan mind attracted simultaneous envy and contempt; nor was it confined to... | |
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Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston most, for he doth nothing in way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty; and I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine. 
