 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...ministry, awakened and alarmed;" yet, wo are assured that " his manners were cheerful, his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humor and a practical joke, and manifested his relisH VOL. YI. — 5 for them by long and loud fits... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...ministry, awakened and alarmed ;" yet, we are assured that " his manners were cheerful, his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humor and a practical joke, and manifested his relish VOL. VI. — 5 for them by long and loud fits... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 766 pages
...husband, a parent and a master, was kind and indulgent. His manners were cheerful; his conversation pleasant and sometimes facetious, but always decent....and manifested his relish for them by long and loud tits of laughter. The Society for the propagation of the Gospel is supposed to have made him a small... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 764 pages
...husband, a parent and a master, was kind and indulgent. His manners were cheerful; his conversation pleasant and sometimes facetious, but always decent....and manifested his relish for them by long and loud lits of laughter. The Society for the propagation of the Gospel is supposed to have made him a small... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 770 pages
...husband, a parent and a master, was kind aad indulge:.!. His manners were cheerful; his conversation pleasant and sometimes facetious, but always decent....practical joke, and manifested his relish for them by long aud loud fits of laughter. The Society for the propagation of the Gospel is supposed to have made him... | |
 | 1857 - 676 pages
...ministry, awakened and alarmed ;" yet, we are assured that " his manners were cheerful, his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humor and a practical joke, and manifested his relish VOL. VI. — 5 for them by long and loud fits... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Religion - 1866 - 766 pages
...humour and a practical joke, and manifested his relish for them by long and loud fits of laughter. The Society for the propagation of the Gospel is supposed to have made him a small compensation for hi* services among the Indians: he received also a small salary from his parishioners; but not satisfied... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod (Mass.) - 1866 - 294 pages
...somewhat cooler to him " ; yet we are assured that " Treat's manners were cheerful, his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humor, and a practical joke, and manifested his relish for them by long and loud fits of laughter."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod - 1887 - 302 pages
...conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always ducent. He was fond of a stroke of humor, and a practical joke, and manifested his relish for them by long and loud fits of laughter." This was the man of whom a well-known anecdote ia told, which doubtless many of my readers have heard,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Cape Cod - 1887 - 288 pages
...somewhat cooler to him " ; yet we are assured that " Treat's manners were cheerful, his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humor, and a practical joke, asd manifested his relish for them by long and loud fits of laughter."... | |
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His manners were cheerful : his conversation pleasant, and sometimes facetious, but always decent. He was fond of a stroke of humour and a practical joke, and manifested his relish for them by long and loud fits of laughter. 
