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Updated: May 25, 2025
With the wind setting down the lane too! you talk of my cough which is better, by the bye." "What a fellow you are!" retorted the other. "Bartram, you are the oddest creature I know. Whatever you take up, you do drive at so. Now I have hardly got a lark afloat before I'm sick of it.
The predictions of society came to naught; instead of becoming an "eccentric" spinster, Miss Bartram was announced to be the affianced bride of Mr. Lawrie. A few weeks and months rolled around, and when the wedding-day came, she almost hailed it as the port of refuge, where she should find a placid and peaceful life. They were married by an aged clergyman, a relative of the bridegroom.
They took his plants and specimens collected by arduous, toilsome, and perilous journeyings they put names to them noble and kingly names for king-sycophants most of them were, these same naturalists they described them as they call it such descriptions, indeed! and then adopted them as their own discoveries. And what did they give John Bartram in return for all his trouble?
But Leslie with bright cheeks and shining eyes was forging ahead, regardless of stray strollers. At exactly the right moment Myrtle leaned forward, and clutched Leslie's shoulder excitedly: "O Leslie! That's my cousin Fred Hicks! And that must be his friend, Bartram Laws! They're out for a hike. How lucky! Stop a minute, please; I want to speak to my cousin."
Besides his three friends, Kinnersley, Hopkinson, and Syng, who worked with him and helped him in his discoveries, there were David Rittenhouse, the astronomer, John Bartram, the botanist, and a host of others.
"We know, first, that the Trust does really exist. Secondly, that there is a provision in it relating to the marriage of Mr. George Bartram in a given time. Fourthly, that Mr. The conclusion naturally follows, that the object contemplated by the Trust, in this case, is an object that has failed.
Situated on the Schuylkill River at Kingsessing, West Philadelphia, just to the south of what was once the lower or Gray's Ferry, this curious structure was begun in 1730, and the main part of it was completed the following year, as indicated by a stone in one of the gables bearing the inscription in Greek, "May God save", followed in English by "John and Ann Bartram, 1731."
Nevertheless, it often drops to the ground before the bird has done with it. I can confirm what Wm. Bartram wrote to Wilson, the Ornithologist, that "The jay is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other nuciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed.
At a quarter to seven inquiry elicited the information that the editor had left the building almost an hour since, with Sir William Bartram, after a crowded afternoon which had brought disappointment to many beside myself who had wished to see him. Unused as I was now to salary earning I felt uneasy.
Bartram was the leading spirit of it, for Bill could see Master Arthur waving the one-legged donkey in an ecstasy, as he clapped his friend on the back till the eye-glass danced upon his nose. At last Mr. Bartram threw himself back as if closing a discussion, and said loud enough for Bill to hear "You never heard of a bully who wasn't a coward."
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