...house, called the Porte Rouge, and situated in a garden in the cloister of St. Benoit, that Master Francis heard the bell of the Sorbonne ring out the... ...who held, in the words of Marina to Boult – “A place, for which the pained’st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change.” But beyond this natural u... ...iously we may believe – and sat on a stone bench in front of the Church of St. Benoit, in company with a priest called Gilles and a woman of the name ... ... the juggler; or it might be three high English minstrels; or the two men, players of ghitterns, from the kingdom of Scot- land, who sang the destruct... ...Negre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and his intimates; or when Baudet ... ...sponsibility; and when we find in the works of Knox, as in the Epistles of Paul, the man himself standing nakedly forward, courting and anticipating c... ...es much of the first transgression and certain strong texts in Genesis and Paul’s Epistles, he does not appeal with entire success. The cases of 196 ... ...n my own breast; but shall be as well content to live under your Grace, as Paul was to live under Nero. And my hope is, that so long as ye defile not ... ...my hope is, that so long as ye defile not your hands with the blood of the saints of God, neither I nor my book shall hurt either you or your authorit...

...rld. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1706 1757 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771. The country seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop... ...ed my con sequence in the society. My constant attendance (I never making a St. Monday) recommended me to the master; and my uncommon quickness at co... ...ompany, soon spent his guineas, found no means of being introduc’d among the players, grew necessitous, pawn’d his cloaths, and wanted bread. Walking ... ...ord; but Dr. Baird (whom you and I saw many years after at his native place, St. Andrew’s in Scotland) gave a contrary opin ion: “For the industry of... ...mon acquaintance jocosely remark’d, that, knowing it to be the custom of the saints, when they received any favour, The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran... ...d at court. 1779 Appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France. 1780 Appoints Paul Jones commander of the “Alliance.” 1782 Signs the preliminary articl...