 | Daniel Isaac, John Burdsall - 1840 - 548 pages
...stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked 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.''^ The clergy of the university must have been very learned, when a layman is employed to preach such... | |
 | Peter Richard Kenrick - Anglican orders - 1841 - 268 pages
...stand, I have brought you some fine biskcts, baked 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.' " Book IX. of the affair; or who attest the public belief of its credibility. Whether or not such evidence... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 558 pages
...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." He died full of honors, his body was carried to the grave by heralds, and an helmet, standard and pennon,... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1842 - 320 pages
...doubtless be imagination in the manner of expression; but, above all, there must be truth and judgment. 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 of figurative eloquence... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...the stubborn Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baited m the oven of Charity, carefully contened for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation." To another we have the following copious description: "Seven Sobi of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or the... | |
 | Peter Cooper - 1844 - 280 pages
...where I now stand, I have brought you some 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." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade... | |
 | Peter Cooper - Church and state - 1844 - 278 pages
...where I now stand, I have brought you some 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." These sweet swallows, how could they doubt, with such nervous and convincing eloquence to persuade... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1846 - 530 pages
...by those of the Graces. title; '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 puritan, published a work... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...now stain), I have brought von some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully eani«rved and curd, as doth the king his meat, And blither too : 'Do. For ki tweet swallows of salvation." " Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily,... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 230 pages
...stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked 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 !'" CHAPTER V. THE GREAT BIBLE. CROMWELL, earl of Essex, for some time the chief minister and favourite... | |
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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. 
