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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it here; and when the same servant was breaking a hard large coal, he said, That is a stone, you blockhe.nl. From this lime he was perfectly silent till the latter end of October, 174; and then died without the least pang or convulsion, in the seventy-eighth year of his age: sous PARTICULARS CONCERNING ' Dr. SWIFT. TAKEN FROIi) )R.g. PIJ-KJNGTON's MEMOIRS. JVlRS. Pilkii;gton's;icquaintance with Dr. Swift commenced from sending him some verses on his birthday. These the Dean received very kindly, 3nd said he would see her whenever she pleased. A few days after, she was introduced to the Dean, in Dr. Delany's garden at Delville, by a, gentlewoman. He saluted her, and asked the lady, if she was he? daughter ? The lady smiled, a, nd said, sh? '.was Mrs. Pilkingtpn. What, says he, that poor little child married married God help Iv.-iy /she is very early engaged in trouble. The i)i; u engaging Mr. PUkington to preach for him at ilic cafliedral nest Sunday in St. Patrick's church, Mrs, f ilkington was charmed to see with what a becoui. se these v?rses in vol, XI. f. 341, N. ing piety the Dean performed that holy service, which he had so much at heart, that he wanted not the assistance of the Liturgy., hut went quite through it, without ever looking in the book. He bowed at the table; which behaviour was censured, as savouring of popery. But this circumstance may vindicate him from the wicked aspersion of being deemed an unbeliever, since it is plain he had the utmost reverence for the eucharist. Service being ended, the Dean was surrounded at the church- door by a crowd of poor; to all of whom he gave charity, except an old woman, who held out a very dirty band to him. He told her very gravely, that though she was a beggar, water wab not so...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217111379 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217111378 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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