English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1. ciltR. Bentley, 1866 - 4 sayfa |
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Abraham Newland afterwards Agapemone appeared beautiful became Beckford body Book of Mormon Boruwlaski Brothers Brummel buried called Cavendish chapel character Church Clerkenwell clothes coffin Cooke Cottle Cottle Church death died dinner dress Duke dwarf eccentric England faith Farquhar father feet Fonthill fortune friends gave gentleman give Gretna ground guineas Halston hand Hannah hermit honour Horace Walpole horse Huntington Irving Jack Adams John Mytton Joseph King letter lived London Lord Majesty marriage married Mary Moser Millenarian mind Mormon never North Marston obtained person plates portrait possessed pounds present Prince prophecy prophet Queen received remarkable replied resided Robert Cottle says seen sent servant Sharp Sir Edward Smith soon Southcote stone strange Street things told took tower twenty Urim and Thummim Vathek visited walk Ward widow wife young
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Sayfa 220 - For the Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and Not Lie, though it tarry, Wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Sayfa 245 - He indited his own epitaph in these words:— " Here lies the Coalheaver, Beloved of his God, but abhorred of men. The Omniscient Judge At the Grand Assize shall rectify and Confirm this to the Confusion of many thousands; For England and its Metropolis shall know, That there hath been a prophet Among them.
Sayfa 237 - tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity and die. It shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Sayfa 227 - was a singular scrawl. It consisted of all kinds of crooked characters disposed in columns, and had evidently been prepared by some person who had before him at the time a book containing various alphabets. Greek and Hebrew letters, crosses and flourishes, Roman letters inverted or placed sidewise,
Sayfa 78 - estate in fee simple in the county of Essex; I beseech Thee to preserve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fire and earthquakes ; and as I have a mortgage in Hertfordshire, I beg of Thee likewise to have an eye of compassion on that county; and for the rest of the counties
Sayfa 76 - thus, when much dispute has pass'd, \Ve find our tenets just the same at last: Both fairly owning riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of the elect: Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the Devil.
Sayfa 224 - incorrect doctrines, and that none of them was acknowledged of God as his Church and Kingdom. And I was expressly commanded to go not after them, at the same time receiving a promise that the fullness of the Gospel should at some future time
Sayfa 225 - the preparatory work for the second coming of the Messiah was speedily to commence; that the time was at hand for the Gospel in all its fullness to be preached in power unto all nations, that a people might be prepared for the
Sayfa 45 - extravagant expectations that the world would be drowned in sorrow when it should be his turn to leave it; and he wrote this ludicrous epitaph on himself shortly before his death:— " Beneath this stone old Abraham lies : Nobody laughs, and nobody cries. Where he's gone, and how he fares, No one knows, and no one cares
Sayfa 250 - had been before me in his own proper person—I may almost say more vividly. I looked from time to time at the imaginary figure, then worked with my pencil, then referred to the countenance, and so on, just as I should have done had the sitter been there. When I looked at the chair, I saw