An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . CHAPTER I . The Character of John Bulls Ohn had a mother [the Church of Euf^land]whom he loved and honoured extremely;a discreet, grave, sober, good-conditioned,cleanly old Gentlewoman as ever was none of your cross-grained, terma-gant scolding Jades that one had as goodbe hanged, as live in the house with ! suchas are always censuring the conduct, andtelling scandalous stories, of their neighbours ; extolling theirown good qualities, and undervaluing those of others. Onthe contrary, she was of a meek spirit:
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . CHAPTER I . The Character of John Bulls Ohn had a mother [the Church of Euf^land]whom he loved and honoured extremely;a discreet, grave, sober, good-conditioned,cleanly old Gentlewoman as ever was none of your cross-grained, terma-gant scolding Jades that one had as goodbe hanged, as live in the house with ! suchas are always censuring the conduct, andtelling scandalous stories, of their neighbours ; extolling theirown good qualities, and undervaluing those of others. Onthe contrary, she was of a meek spirit: and as she wasstrictly virtuous herself, so she always put the best construc-tion upon the words and actions of her neighbours; exceptwhere they were irreconcilable to the rules of honesty anddecency. She was neither one of your precise prudes, norone of your phantastical old belles that dress themselves likegirls of fifteen : as she neither wore a ruff, forehead cloth,nor high-crowned hat, so she had laid aside feathers, flowers,and crimpt ribbons in her head-dress, furbelow [flounce],scarfs, and hooped pett
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