Latin, which on occasions he would produce even to wonder. He was all life, all prettiness, far from morose, sullen, or childish in anything he said or did. The last time he had been at church, which was at Greenwich, I asked him, according to custom,... Curiosities of Human Nature - Page 80by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stoughton - 1881 - 516 pages
...books, to be expounded. He had learned by heart divers sentences in Latin and Greek, which, on occasion, he would produce even to wonder. He was all life,...the sermon ; ' Two good things, father,' said he, ' bonumgratia, and bonum glories!' with a just account of what the preacher said. The day before he... | |
| John Evelyn - 1889 - 538 pages
...books, to be expounded. He had learned by heart divers sentences in Latin and Greek, which, on occasion, he would produce even to wonder. He was all life,...remembered of the sermon; two good things, Father, said he, bonum gratix and bonum glorice, with a just account of what the preacher said. The day before he died,... | |
| Alice Morse Earle - 1899 - 562 pages
...and demonstrate them. He had learned by heart divers sentences in Latin and Greek which on occasion he would produce even to wonder. He was all life,...prettiness, far from morose, sullen, or childish in any thing he said or did." Of course this is not given as an ordinary education of an every-day child.... | |
| John Evelyn - 1901 - 432 pages
...books, to be expounded. He had learned by heart divers sentences in Latin and Greek, which, on occasion, he would produce even to wonder. He was all life,...remembered of the sermon; two good things, Father, said he, bonum gratios and bonum gloria, with a just account of what the preacher said. The day before he died,... | |
| Jessie Bedford - 1903 - 384 pages
...to ' wonder. He was all life, all prettinesse, far from ' morose, sullen, or childish in any thing he said or did. ' The last time he had been at church...(which was at ' Greenwich), I asked him, according to costome, what ' he remembered of the sermon ; two good things, ' father, said he, bonum gratue and... | |
| Eric Parker - 1908 - 482 pages
...progress in Comenius's Janua ; began himself to write legibly, and had a strong passion for Greek. . . . He was all life, all prettiness, far from morose, sullen, or childish in anything he said or did." " Far from childish " — it is perverse enough. John Evelyn himself began the dreary round of tropes... | |
| Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...and Greeke, which on occasion he would produce even to wonder. " He was all life, all prettinesse, far from morose, sullen, or childish in anything he...which was at Greenwich, I asked him, according to custome, what he remembered of ye sermon ; two good things, Father, said he, bonum gratiae and bonum... | |
| 1912 - 1260 pages
...himself to write legibly and had a strange passion for Grfckf. , . . He was all /iff, all fn-ettincss, far from morose, sullen or childish in anything he said or did. . . . He had a wonderful disposition to mathematics, having by heart divers propositions ot Euclid... | |
| 1851 - 644 pages
...affectionate behavior, as by the remarkable qualities of his mind. "He was all life," says the father, " all prettiness, far from morose, sullen, or childish...the sermon ; ' Two good things, father,' said he, ' bonum gratia and lonum gloria,' with a just account of what the preacher said." Although it is a... | |
| 1819 - 578 pages
...even to wonder. He was all life, all prettinesse, far from morose, sullen, or childish in any thing he said or did. The last time he had been at church (wch was at Greenwich'), I ask'd him, according to costome, what he remembered of J* sermon; two good... | |
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