The Wade Genealogy: Being Some Account of the Origin of the Name, and Genealogies of the Families of Wade of Massachusetts and New Jersey. [pt. 1-4] Comp. by Stuart Charles Wade, Volume 1

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S. C. Wade, 1900

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Page 227 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 43 - SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and beholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
Page 82 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
Page 178 - Had you seen these roads before they were made. You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade.
Page 243 - King defender of the faith and in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand seven Hundred and...
Page 109 - Never, nor could he c ; but," said he, " that villain Wade did often solicit me, and, not prevailing that way, got me, by a trick, to write my name upon a piece of white paper, which I, thinking nothing, did ; so that, if any charge came under my hand, it was forged by that villain Wade, by writing something above my hand, without my consent or knowledge"1.
Page 114 - ... day of November, in the year of grace 1605. William Waad, whom the King has appointed his Lieutenant of the Tower, returns on the ninth of October, in the sixth year of the reign of James the First, 1608, his great and everlasting thanks.
Page 80 - But they spying our ship-boat making towards them, returned with maine force and fled into an Island that lay up in the Bay or river there, and our men pursued them into the Island, and the Savages fledde and escaped: but our men found a fire, and the side of a beare on a wooden spit left at the same by the Savages that were fled.
Page 13 - It is obvious that the sole use of a magic boat is to transport its possessor from place to place in a few minutes, like the magic wings of Wade's own father. This is all we need to know, to see the point of the allusion. Old widows, says Chaucer in effect, know too much of the craft of Wade's boat ; they can fly from place to place in a minute, and, if charged with any misdemeanour, will swear they were a mile away from the place at the time alleged.

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