 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn. — JOHNSON. Barnett's Life (1766). Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true. jemmy Dawson. Her cap, far whiter... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...in Leighton's writings to remember a noteworthy circumstance respecting his death. He had been used to say that if he were to choose a place to die in it should be an inn—for that would look so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn. It... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...in Leighton's writings to remember a noteworthy circumstance respecting his death. He had been used to say that if he were to choose a place to die in it should be an inn—for that would look so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn. It... | |
 | 1875 - 438 pages
...by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Archbishop Leighton said, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. The gentle Geoffrey Crayon says: " To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 416 pages
...in Leighton's writings to remember a noteworthy circumstance respecting his death. He had been used to say that if he were to choose a place to die in it should be an inn — for that would look so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn. It was... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...express a wish to die at an inn, and the desire was gratified. " He used often to say," writes Burnet, " that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn. It looked like a pilgrim going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise... | |
 | 1871 - 398 pages
...the next day taken Ш of a pleurisy, and died the day after at the Bell Inn, in Warwick-lane. He used to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an g inn. To die at an inn, he thought looked like a pilgrim going home, who was weary of the noise and... | |
 | 1871 - 784 pages
...saint. But this readiness he acquired by much fasting, meditation and prayer. Leighton had often said, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be a public Inn. The whole world seemed to him but a large noisy Inn, and he a wayfarer, tarrying in it... | |
 | Walter Augustus Gray - 1873 - 140 pages
...Leighton, that he used often to express his wish that he might die at an inn. " It would look," he said, " like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was...inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion of it." He obtained his wish. He was seized with his last illness at the " Bell Inn," in Warwick Lane;... | |
 | 1873 - 404 pages
...of seventy-three, in the Boll Inn, Warwick-lane ; a somewhat remarkable fact, as he had often said that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an Inn ; it looked so like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world is all as an Inn. Though separated from Dunblane,... | |
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He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x. 
