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Ralph and Evelyn happened to meet at the pump, quite accidentally, after the former had made half a dozen five-minute-apart trips for a drink. It was Miss Van Kamp, this time, who had been studying on the mutual acquaintance problem. "You don't happen to know the Tylers, of Parkersburg, do you?" she asked. "The Tylers! I should say I do!" was the unexpected and enthusiastic reply.
Politically the human race would still be in the most absolute slavery, were it not for the John Balls, the Wat Tylers, the Tells, the innumerable individual giants who fought inch by inch against the power of kings and tyrants. But for individual pioneers the world would have never been shaken to its very roots by that tremendous wave, the French Revolution.
Va. House Del. 1. Burk, Hist. Va. iv. 496-497. Jour. Va. House Del. 10. L. G. Tyler, Letters and Times of the Tylers, i. 81-83, where it is said to be taken from Abel's Life of John Tyler. Peyton, Hist. Augusta Co. 211. Peyton, Hist. Augusta Co. 211. Randall, Life of Jefferson, i. 352. Jour. Va. House Del. 15. Jefferson's Writings, viii. 368; Wirt, 231; Girardin, in Burk. Hist. Va. iv.
One of the roses was a present from France, worth five guineas. I hope Mr. Lamb and Miss Wolfe are not much hurt. Very sad affair! strange too that it should happen through Jem Tylers cattle poor Jem, who had such a respect for you!" "Respect for me!" echoed Miss Philly, "when he called me a chattering old maid, Mrs. Loveit heard him. Respect for me!"
Here are the Companies of the Tallow and Wax Chandlers, the Armorers and Girdlers, Cordwayners and Carpenters, Masons, Plumbers, Founders, Poulterers, Cooks, Coopers, Tylers and Brick Layers, Bowyers and Vinters, Merchant Taylors, Blacksmiths and Weavers, Mercers, Grocers, Turners, Gardeners, Dyers, Scriveners, Fruiterers, Plaisterers, Brown Bakers, Imbroiderers, Musicians, and many more.
She visited among them continually, and always took me with her. I saw the inside of the houses of the rich, the leading citizens of Norwich, governors and ex-governors of the state, senators, the Rockwells, Greens, Tylers, Williams, Backuses, Lusks, and others, and became used to the elegancies and luxuries of their households.
By the 3rd of the 6th of Henry VIII. it was enacted that master carpenters, masons, bricklayers, tylers, plumbers, glaziers, joiners, and other employers of such skilled workmen, should give to each of their journeymen, if no meat or drink was allowed, sixpence a day for the half year, fivepence a day for the other half; or fivepence-halfpenny for the yearly average.
"I'll stop and rest at the Tylers'," he called back, "so don't be uneasy if I'm out some time." After he left the post-office the fresh air tempted him to go farther than he had intended. At a long distance from his home his strength seemed suddenly to desert him. The snow began to fall in earnest. Numb with cold, he groped his way back to the house, almost fainting from exhaustion.
This immigration, now lighter, now heavier, continued through a rather prolonged period. There came now to Virginia families whose names are often met in the later history of the land. Now Washingtons appear, with Randolphs, Carys, Skipwiths, Brodnaxes, Tylers, Masons, Madisons, Monroes, and many more.
Justin H. Smith's Annexation of Texas and G. P. Garrison's Westward Extension , in American Nation series, give full and trustworthy accounts of the Texas movement; while Lyon G. Tyler's Times of the Tylers ; C. H. Ambler's Life of Thomas Ritchie ; J. W. DuBose's Life of William L. Yancey ; and J. F. H. Claiborne's Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman , supply abundant material showing the temper and purposes of the different parts of the South in 1840.
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