 | Benson John Lossing - 1876 - 878 Seiten
...you ; stoop as you go through, and you will escape many hard thumps." This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." ' Page 130. * This war cost England one hundred and fifty millions... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 Seiten
...Dr. Samuel Mather, on the twelfth of May, 1784, from which I have already quoted, where he says, " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723 ; I visited it in 1733, 1743, 1753, and 1763. In 1773 I was in England ; in 1775 I had a sight... | |
 | 1877 - 972 Seiten
...you; stoop as you go through it, and you will mise many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. In another letter, dated Passy, Nov. 10, 1779, referring to a paper of ' Advice addressed to the People... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1877 - 386 Seiten
...to stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." "Shall we all go to Heaven?" A number of intimate friends being at dinner on the Lord's Day, one of... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 Seiten
...you; stoop as you go through it, and yon will miss many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. In another letter, dated Passy, Nov. 10, 1779, referring to a paper of ' Advice addressed to the People... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...you. Stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps. This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me. And I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." There was in Boston a young man by the name of Collins, a reckless, dissipated spendthrift, of very... | |
 | 618 Seiten
...you go through it, and you will miss ••Many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my he»J, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. — Dr. Franklin. Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, AD, 1161, disliking much Archbishop Becket's pride... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 926 Seiten
...you ; stoop as you go through, and you will escape many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." ' Page 130. 1 This war cost England one hundred and fifty millions... | |
 | Justin Winsor, Clarence F. Jewett - 1881 - 740 Seiten
...years. In a letter written from Passy, in 1784, to Samuel Mather, a son of Cotton Mather, he says: " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723; 1 visited it in '733« '743> '753' a°d 1763. In 1773 I was in England; in 1775 I had a sight... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1882 - 694 Seiten
...years. In a letter written from Passy, in 1784, to Samuel Mather, a son of Cotton Mather, he says : " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay...bones there. I left it in 1 723 ; I visited it in •733. '743- '753' and '763. In 1773 I was in England ; in 1775 I had a sight of it, but could not... | |
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This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. 
