The History and Objects of the Foundling Hospital: With a Memoir of the Founder

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C. Jaques, 1865 - 3 pàgines

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Pàgina 140 - Buckner for several of the Governors, and by them presented to the Hospital as a mark of respect. THE OFFERING OF THE WISE MEN. "And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Pàgina 78 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, "And said, Verily 1 say unto you, Except ye be converted,
Pàgina 127 - out of heaven, and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Pàgina 138 - ELIJAH RAISING THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH. "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God,
Pàgina 123 - subscription being opened for his benefit would not offend him, he received this noble answer:—" I have not wasted the little wealth of which I was formerly possessed in self-indulgence and vain expenses, and am not ashamed to confess that, in this my old age, I am poor.
Pàgina 57 - Hospital, had asserted in Dick's Coffee House, that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. " That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a
Pàgina 56 - if I am so wretched an artist as my enemies assert, it is somewhat strange that this, which was one of the first I painted the size of life, should stand the test of twenty years' competition, and be generally thought the best portrait in the place, notwithstanding the first painters in the kingdom exerted all their talents to vie with it."* Hogarth
Pàgina 56 - village with a church. In the other comer are three boys coming out of a door, with the king's arms over it, with emblems of their future employment; one of them poises a plummet, a second holds a trowel, and a third, whose mother is fondly pressing him to her bosom, has
Pàgina 57 - being at dinner with Dr. Cheselden, and some other company, he was informed that John .Freke, Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, had asserted in Dick's Coffee House, that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. " That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a
Pàgina 24 - during the War in Germany, also during the Continental war in 1794, and on the occasion of the battle of Waterloo, they freely opened their gates to the necessitous children of those who had fallen in the service of their country. Illegitimate children are now the sole objects of the Charity.

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