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In my architectural journeys I used to entertain, people with these wondrous subjects; and one evening I had the honour of agitating even the Bishop of Exeter himself, who, in his enthusiasm, bade me write a book, and dedicate it to him. I did so. "The Cross and the Serpent" is the title of it, and it was duly inscribed to his lordship.
Leaving the further notice of these and his other chief literary productions to another chapter, there is little more to record in Bunyan's life. Though never again seriously troubled for his nonconformity, his preaching journeys were not always without risk.
Neb, in a word, had managed to get on board the ship before she hauled out into the stream, and lay concealed among the water-casks, his pockets crammed with ginger-bread and apples, until discovered by the cook, in one of his journeys in quest of water.
Are not the stars like beacons set, To guide the argosies that go From universe to universe, Our little world above, below? On their great errands solemn bent, In their vast journeys unaware Of our small planet's name or place Revolving in the lower air. Oh thought too vast! oh thought too glad: An awe most rapturous it stirs.
Journeys of length being made on horseback, and, of course, by brief stages, it was usual always to make a halt on the Sunday in some town where the traveller might attend divine service, and his horse have the benefit of the day of rest, the institution of which is as humane to our brute labourers as profitable to ourselves.
"Crash! only three pulses less than a third of a mile off yonder, somewhere in that wood. I passed three stricken oaks there, ripped out new and glittering. The oak draws lightning more than other timber, having iron in solution in its sap. Your floor here seems oak. "Heart-of-oak. From the peculiar time of your call upon me, I suppose you purposely select stormy weather for your journeys.
The traveller of to-day is more fortunate; he expects and finds in a modern liner all the comforts he would enjoy in a first-class hotel ashore; and finds them too in a lesser degree on railway journeys.
Although his smooth, brown hair had turned gray long ago, he had never married, for he had decided in the Emperor's favour this Charles knew also whenever the choice presented itself to follow his royal patient during his journeys and expeditions or to find rest and comfort in a home of his own.
He completed the whole Chapel within the space of two years; so that the young Michelangelo, upon one of his journeys to or from Rome, may probably have seen the frescoes in their glory.
However, a part of his booty was an old coach built when carriage people made long journeys in their own equipages. This he would "keep on sale for me free of charge," etc. "Which means you'll never sell it," I said. Oh, he could sell it if any man could! I smiled. Could he lend me, I asked, for half a day or so, a good span of horses? He could. "Then hitch up the coach and let me try it."
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