 | Benson John Lossing - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 410 pages
...heroes and great men, rather diminutive in person. Hubbard, the historian, says, when speaking of him, "A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He was born in Lancashire, England, about... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 418 pages
...heroes and great men, rather diminutive in person. Hubbard, the historian, says, when speaking of him, " A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He was born in Lancashire, England, about... | |
 | 1857 - 692 pages
...never entered into the school of Christ, or of John the Baptist ; or, if ever he was there, he had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no...soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and,... | |
 | 1857 - 716 pages
...school of Christ, or of John the Baptist : or, if ever he was there, he had forgot his first lesions, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the...soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and,... | |
 | Presidents - 1857 - 426 pages
...heroes and great men, rather diminutive in person. Hubbard, tho historian, says, when speaking of him, " A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He was born in Lancashire, England, about... | |
 | United States - 1857 - 432 pages
...heroes and great men, rather diminutive in person. Hubbard, the historian, says, when speaking of him, " A little chimney is soon fired : so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very het and angry temper." He was born in Lancashire, England, about... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...England — was diminutive in person, and ardent in disposition. Hubbard, the historian, said of him: "A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain — a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He was a soldier by profession, and the colonists... | |
 | Stephen Merrill Allen - Massachusetts - 1871 - 150 pages
...size, and it is said that the grace of patience was not his. An old contemporary writer says of him : u A little chimney is soon fired : so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." The saintly Robinson, of Leyden, on hearing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1876 - 708 pages
...base of operations, defied the Captain. High words passed and might have ended in bloodshed, for as "a little chimney is soon fired, so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." l But the fortifiBarricade at Cape Ann. cation... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - United States - 1877 - 368 pages
...obligations to him, had to confess with sorrow that the old Adam had much to do with his prowess. " A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He nearly came to blows with a company of... | |
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Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was... 
