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However, having appointed Mr. Creed to come to me to Fox Hall, I went over thither, and after some debate, Creed and I resolved to go to Clapham, to Mr. Gauden's, who had sent his coach to their place for me because I was to have my horse of him to go to the race. So I went thither by coach and my Will by horse with me; Mr. Creed he went over back again to Westminster to fetch his horse.

"Upon the Presbytery day the youth delivered an excellent sermon upon the text appointed him, which pleased and amazed the Presbytery to a degree; only Mr Blair smelt out something in it which made him call the youth aside to the corner of the church, and thus he began with him: 'Sir, you have delivered a nate sermon, every way well pointed.

"Four things," observes Melancthon, "ought to be well impressed upon our minds respecting afflictions. They are appointed. We do not suffer affliction by chance, but by the determinate counsel and permission of God.

Neither was he at Compline; and it was with the knowledge that Cromwell's man and their own Superior were together in conference, that the monks went up the dormitory stairs that night. But he was in his place at the chapter-mass next morning, though he spoke to no one, and disappeared immediately afterwards. Then at the appointed time the monks assembled in the chapter-house.

The legislature had two houses, the lower a popular chamber, called the Assembly, elected by the towns. The upper branch was called the Council. The first Council was appointed by the king; later members were to be nominated by the Assembly for the approval of the governor. The Assembly and Council formed together the Great and General Court.

I only live from day to day." "And you still refuse to take your future into your own hands?" "It is not mine. I must accept what has been appointed." "And you still believe that some door will be opened through which we may escape?" "With all my heart." "I wish I could share your faith."

We go to our appointed teachers as to our physicians; we say to them, 'We feel pain here, and here, and here: we do not see our way, and we require you to help us.

The place appointed for Saurin to meet Marriner was a wood-stack reached by a path across the fields, two miles from Weston.

The command gave Dino an additional pang: the guest-room was for strangers, not for one who had been as a child of the house. But he lifted himself up feebly from the cold stones, and followed the lay-brother, who had brought the message, to the appointed place. The Prior was an austere man, but not devoid of compassion, nor even of sympathy.

Two months after he joined he was appointed to a troop. He found, however, that he did not have to accompany them generally on parade. The regiment, like all others at home, was very short of its complement of horses, and only one trumpeter to each squadron was mounted. Edgar, however, cared little for this.