 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1836 - 262 sayfa
...which latter, he thus speaks to his steward : "But above all dead things, my barge, I hope no body uses it on any account, and. that she is kept in a dry dock, or at least covered from the weather." This barge, or the one that replaced it in 1700, must have been a vessel of some stateliness, if we... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1851 - 424 sayfa
...return to England, he writes of this yacht — " but above all dead things, I hope nobody uses her on any account, and that she is kept in a dry dock, or at least covered from the weather."2 The dress and habits of the Penns at Pennsbury had as little of the sourness and formality... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 580 sayfa
...one of his letters to James Harrison, he says, " but above all dead things, my barge, I hope no body uses it on any account, and that she is kept in a dry dock, or at least covered from the weather."f When passing in his barge between Philadelphia and Pennsbury, he frequently stopped at Burlington... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1872 - 406 sayfa
...his return to England, he writes of this yacht, ' But above all dead things, I hope nobody uses her on any account, and that she is kept in a dry dock, or at least covered from the weather.' The dress and habits of the Penns at Pennsbury had as little of the sourness and formality which have... | |
 | Maria Webb - 1877 - 460 sayfa
...preference. Writing to James Harrison, his steward, and commending the plants to his watchful care, he says " but, above all dead things, my barge. I...nobody uses it on any account, and that she is kept in dock, covered from the weather." We are told that when passing in his barge between Philadelphia and... | |
 | Charles Shearer Keyser - 1882 - 126 sayfa
...always showed much solicitude, he mentions it in his letters to James Logan frequently, and in one says, ' But above all dead things my barge ; I hope...a dry dock, or at least covered from the weather.' "—Penn and Logan Correspondence. "The condition of the roads made travel by boat necessary." —... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1882 - 392 sayfa
...liked, for in writing to his steward, he adjured him, "above all dead things," to take care of his barge. " I hope nobody uses it on any account, and that she is kept in dock covered from the weather." An amusing anecdote is related in connection with this favourite vessel.... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1882 - 394 sayfa
...liked, for in writing to his steward, he adjured him, "above all dead things," to take care of his barge. " I hope nobody uses it on any account, and that she is kept in dock covered from the weather." An amusing anecdote is related in connection with this favourite vessel.... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1882 - 608 sayfa
...imbibed from his father, the admiral. In one of his letters to James Harrison, he says, "But aboce all -dead things, my barge ; I hope nobody uses it on any account, and * JF Fisher. that she is kept in a dry dock-, or, at least, covered from the weather."* When passing... | |
 | Samuel Fitch Hotchkin - 1893 - 482 sayfa
...Philadelphia in the barge. The spirit of the Vice Admiral's son is seen in the direction to Harrison, " but above all dead things my barge, I hope nobody...a dry dock or at least covered from the weather." Pemberton Manuscripts. Janney tells a good story, from the New Jersey Historical Collections, of the... | |
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But above all dead things, my barge; I hope nobody uses it on any account, and that she is kept in a dry dock, or, at least covered from the weather. 
