 | 1834 - 424 pages
...youth. "It pleased the Lord," writes he, in a letter to his friend Winthiop, " to call me for some time to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French,...Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton, for the Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. I taught two young gentlemen, a Parliament man's... | |
 | Mary Clark - 1836 - 192 pages
...he employed himself as a teacher of youth, especially in the languages. He observes in a letter : " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and with some persons, to practice the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton)... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 362 pages
...proof which it furnishes of his personal acquaintance with his great contemporary, Milton. He says: ** It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages." Clarke was absent, in the service of the Colony, twelve years. In 1664, his accounts were audited by... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 374 pages
...proof which it furnishes of his personal acquaintance with his great contemporary, Milton. He says : " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages." Clarke was absent, in the service of the Colony, twelve years. In 1664, his accounts were audited by... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...granted to Mr. Coddington. I give this remarkable passage in the words of this Anglo-American: — "It pleased the Lord to call me for some time and...Milton, for my Dutch I read him, read me many more Ian" Secretary Milton " at that moment was probably anxious to con the phrases of a Dutch state-paper,... | |
 | 1841 - 534 pages
...of a charter granted to Mr. Coddington." In these memoirs the following memorable passage occurs: " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...French, and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton—for my Dutch I read him— read me many more languages." This very curious literary fact was... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - 1844 - 686 pages
...parishes ; — are now in the saddle and at the helm, so high that non datur descensus nisi cadendo. . • It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages." Knowles, sup. p. 262, 264. « 2 Sam- xvi. •> P. 7. benefit posterity. Porlions of his history related... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 pages
...proof which it furnishes of his personal acquaintance with his great contemporary, Milton. He says : " It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and...my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages." Clarke was absent, in the service of the Colony, twelve years. In 1664, his accounts were audited by... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1846 - 688 pages
...mankind &,c. Sir I have desires of keeping home. I have long had scruples of selling the Natives ought but what may bring or tend to civilizing : I therefore...to call me for some time and with some persons to practice the Hebrew, the Greeke, Latine, French and Dutch: The Secretaire of the Councell, (Mr Milton)... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1846 - 688 pages
...persons to practice the Hebrew, the Greeke, Latine, French and Dutch : The Secretarie of the Councell, (Mr Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more Languages : Grammar rules begin to be esteemd a Tyrannie. I taught 2 young Gentlemen a Parliament mans sons (as we teach our children English)... | |
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It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. 
