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Oglethorpe's letters' as politically valueless, and full of self-justifications, and 'old stories. He answers them only through his secretary; but in 1722 he consoled poor Anne by making her a Countess of Ireland. Anne's bolt was shot, she had had her day, but the day of her fair sisters was dawning. Mr. John Law, of Lauriston soi-disant, had made England too hot to hold him.
The General told us, that when he was a very young man, I think only fifteen, serving under Prince Eugene of Savoy, he was sitting in a company at table with a Prince of Wirtemberg. The Prince took up a glass of wine, and, by a fillip, made some of it fly in Oglethorpe's face. Here was a nice dilemma.
X. Oglethorpe's disinterestedness in the undertaking, XI. Advertisement of Governor Johnson of South Carolina, and letter of the Governor and Council to Oglethorpe, XII. Account of the Creeks, XIII. Account of the Indians in Georgia by Oglethorpe, XIV. Memoir of the Duke of Argyle, XV. Saltzburgers, XVI. Arrival of these persecuted German Protestants in Georgia, XVII. Settlement of Moravians,
Should it happen now, however, the triumph would have lost its sweetness, even were Oglethorpe alive to partake of it; for his enemy is dead, leaving no heir, and this foreign branch has come in without Oglethorpe's aid." The friends remained musing a considerable time, each in his own train of thought, till the Warden suddenly spoke. "Do you mean to prosecute this apparent claim of yours?"
All officers of militia were continued, for the purpose of holding musters, and keeping the men properly trained for military services; and Oglethorpe's regiment was left in the colony for its defence. By this time the Trustees had transported to Georgia, at different times, above one thousand five hundred men, women and children.
Truly, Priscilla Gower and enthusiasm were not in accordance with each other. Chance had thrown them together when both were very young, and propinquity did the rest. Propinquity is the strongest of agents in a love affair, and in Denis Oglethorpe's love affair, propinquity had accomplished what nothing else would have been likely to have done.
"I hope," said Theodora, when, after their sight-seeing was over, she stood on the pavement before the door in Broome street, her nice little hand on Denis Oglethorpe's arm, "I hope you will let me come to see you again, Miss Gower." Priscilla, standing upon the door-step, smiled down on her blooming girl's face, a smile that was a little like moonlight. All Priscilla's smiles were like moonlight.
The magnificent old oaks stand round the place in silent solemn grandeur; and among them I had no difficulty in recognising, by the description Captain F had given me of it, the crumbling shattered relic of a tree called Oglethorpe's oak.
Goldsmith and I dined at General Oglethorpe's. Goldsmith expatiated on the common topick, that the race of our people was degenerated, and that this was owing to luxury. JOHNSON. 'Sir, in the first place, I doubt the fact. I believe there are as many tall men in England now, as ever there were.
Why, man, this is just the time when Say, who would ever think of Jem Oglethorpe's turning up to harrie you! Just at this time, too!" "Oh," cried Hawker suddenly, filled with rage, "you remind me of an accursed duffer! Why can't you tell me something about the man, instead of sitting there and gibbering those crazy things at the ceiling?" "By the piper " "Oh, shut up!
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