"Belcher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hearers alternately wept and shivered, and the professors, headed by old Dr. Holyoke (who afterwards lived to celebrate his hundredth birthday), levelled a defensive and aggressive pamphlet at their castigator; but Governor Belcher kissed the dauntless preacher, and bade him 'cry aloud and spare not, but show ...
— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various
... to harp upon the same string.... Must take care of her children; could not leave that house and neighborhood where she had dwelt so long.... I gave her a piece of Mr. Belcher's cake and gingerbread wrapped up in a ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... tells of a great public meeting in Sevenoaks, the burning in effigy of Mr. Belcher, and that gentleman's interview ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... it in Scott's case, a christening dinner; when Lord Normanby took the chair, and I remember sitting next the great painter Turner, who had come with Stanfield, and had enveloped his throat, that sultry summer day, in a huge red belcher-handkerchief which nothing would induce him to remove. He was not otherwise demonstrative, but enjoyed himself in a quiet silent way, less perhaps at the speeches than at the changing lights on the river. Carlyle did not come; telling me in his reply to the invitation that he ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... is notable for the frequent use of its 3rd stanza by his brother John. John Wesley, in his old age, did not so much shrink from death as from the thought of its too slow approach. His almost constant prayer was, "Lord, let me not live to be useless." "At every place," says Belcher, "after giving to his societies what he desired them to consider his last advice, he invariably ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth |
