...Arriving 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...the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." MARSHAL SAXE. THIS gallant officer, a -few weeks after the brilliant campaign of 1 746, used to drive...

...the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage* where I now stand, 1 have brought you some fine biskets baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved...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,...

...stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of cha^ lity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church,...the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." MARSHAL SAXE, THIS gallant officer, a few weeks after the brilliant campaign of 1746, used to drive...

...Sixpennyworth of Divine Spirit" one of these works bears the following elaborate one ; " Some fine baskets baked in the oven of charity; carefully conserved...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." Sometimes their quaintness has some humour. One Sir Humphrey Lind, a zealous puritan, published a work...

...' 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 spirit, ' and the sweet swallows of salvation.' — GIBBON'S Rhetoric, p. 17. The Spectator humorously describes the abuse of figurative Eloquence,...

...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 of property and family,...

...he, " at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fint biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully...the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." '* Which way of preaching," says Anthony Wood, the reporter of the homily, " was tlieii mostly in fashion,...

...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 spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." This style was much admired in his days even by the generality of the scholars, and indeed such alliteration...

...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 spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation." * Very few years elapsed before the general serenity of the kingdom allowed leisure for study; and...

...brought you some fine b-skets, baked in the oven of " charity, and carefully conserved for the chickins of the " church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows " of salvation."* This way of preaching was then mostly fashionable, and commended by the generality of scholars * Wood...