Memories of Jordans and the Chalfonts, and the Early Friends in the Chiltern Hundreds |
Contents
| 14 | |
| 21 | |
| 27 | |
| 35 | |
| 43 | |
| 45 | |
| 51 | |
| 59 | |
| 135 | |
| 143 | |
| 156 | |
| 162 | |
| 168 | |
| 175 | |
| 184 | |
| 197 | |
| 66 | |
| 79 | |
| 86 | |
| 93 | |
| 96 | |
| 99 | |
| 107 | |
| 115 | |
| 124 | |
| 203 | |
| 212 | |
| 215 | |
| 224 | |
| 226 | |
| 231 | |
| 240 | |
| 268 | |
Other editions - View all
Memories of Jordans and the Chalfonts, and the Early Friends in ..., Volume 2 W. H. (William Henry) Summers No preview available - 2012 |
Memories of Jordans and the Chalfonts, and the Early Friends in the Chiltern ... W. H. Summers No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Amersham appear Archdale asked attended Aylesbury Gaol Ayrs Beaconsfield Benett Besse brought Buckinghamshire burial buried at Jordans Burrough called Chalfont St Chesham Chorley Wood Church Coleshill constable county of Bucks Crowell daughter death Devonshire House died Edward Burrough Farnham Royal father Fotherly George Fox Giles give Green Guli hath Hedgerley horse Hunger Hill imprisoned Isaac and Mary Isaac Penington John Penington John Raunce Jordans Jordans Farm Joseph Justice King Lane lived London Lord magistrates marriage Mary Penington meeting-house mentioned Milton month Monthly Meeting neighbours oath Old Jordans parish passed Penn's persecution Peter prison Quaker Rebekah Butterfield refusing released residence returned Rickmansworth seems Seer Green seized sent Sir Benjamin spirit Springett Steevens Stone Dean suffered taken thee Thomas Ellwood Thomas Zachary thou tithes told took truth warden widow wife William Grimsdale William Penn William Russell Wooburn Woodside worth young
Popular passages
Page 33 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 216 - O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Page 85 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 83 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled "Paradise Lost.
Page 65 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 154 - THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravelled pathway The light and shadow played. I saw the nursery windows Wide open to the air ; But the faces of the children, They were no longer there.
Page 58 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.
Page 249 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Page 223 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 83 - I liked it and what I thought of it, which I modestly but freely told him, ~and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of " Paradise Lost," but what hast thou to say of