In 1726, when holding a responsible office in the administration of the navy, he had a quarrel with a Geronimite fraile over the occupancy of a house.
And that it is necessarie there should be one supereminent, vnto whome all the residue should stoope: this fraile bodie of ours may giue vs sufficient instruction.
True it is that God created all things in number, weight & measure, & that after an incomprehensible maner vnto our fraile & humane capacitie.
After the funeral Miss Fraile returned to her home in semi-rural Pennsylvania "to collect my traps" as she brightly put it, and a week or so later came back to New Haven and settled down in her new position.
Miss Fraile named a sum half as large again as the one previously mentioned, but Aunt Selina, stifling a gasp, clinched the matter there.
Here she named a sum, Miss Fraile instantly decided that it would not do, and proceeded after her own fashion to the work of raising her opponent's bid.
And 'twill thy Rhetorick false flesh confound; Which flatters thy fraile thoughts, no time can wound This unarm'd frame.
And though we see Beautie enough to warme each heart; Yet you by a chaste Chimicke Art, Calcine fraile love to pietie.
Place me alone in some fraile boate 'Mid th' horrors of an angry Sea: Where I while time shall move, may floate Despairing either land or day!
Why should we build, Castara, in the aire Of fraile opinion?
Shallow is that unsafe sea Over which you spread your saile: And the Barke you trust to, fraile As the Winds it must obey.
Though with larger saile Some dance upon the Ocean: yet more fraile And faithlesse is that wave, than where we glide, Blest in the safety of a private tide.
But now my soule prepare To ponder what and where we are How fraile is life, how vaine a breath Opinion, how uncertaine death: How onely a poore stone shall beare Witnesse that once we were.
For how know I the latest sand In my fraile glasse of life, doth not now fall?
Let not the reader infer from this that our respected fraile was guilty of drinking more than was good or seemly for him.
The other padre was here at Pala to take the place of the fraile who was sick.
Who then to fraile mortality shall trust But limmes in water or but writes in dust.
Woemen in fraile beauty trust, Only seeme you kind to me, Still be truly kind and just For that can't dissembled bee.
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So glorious mirrhour of celestiall grace, And soueraine moniment of mortall vowes, 8 How shallfraile pen descriue her heauenly face, For feare through want of skill her beautie to disgrace?
He there does now enioy eternall rest 2 And happie ease, which thou doest want and craue, And further from it daily wanderest: 4 What if some litle paine the passage haue, That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter waue?
But first thou must a season fast and pray, 8 Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And haue her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.
Evidently the engagement with the battery at El Fraile had been heard and had alarmed the city.
The commodore was standing on the bridge of the Olympia, piloting his fleet, and the shot from El Fraile had given him a clear idea of how the shore lay.
These grottoes are situated in the barranca known as Mispayantla, at once the most picturesque and the most important in the Mexican Valley, extending from El Fraile to the east and west as far as the Amecan Valley.
It was no longer a question of commissioning a fraile to appoint inquisitors at his pleasure, but of including in the organization of the Castilian Inquisition the whole of the Spanish dominions.
The fraile could only reply that he had heard it from persons of repute and authority, but, on being commanded to state their names, refused to do so, thus tacitly acknowledging that he had no proof.
The good fraile lost no time in obtaining from Alva permission to exercise his office and in despatching an envoy to Ferdinand at Logroño to secure the royal confirmation and suggest the necessity of appointing a staff of salaried officials.
Safe through the perilous dark we sped, Quiet each ship as the quiet dead, Till the guns of El Fraile roared--too late, And the steel prows forged ahead.
A shot from Corregidor and another from El Fraile told that the fleet was discovered, but the ships glided quietly on, and at dawn the Spanish fleet was seen anchored under the batteries of Cavité.
Goe then, and muster men: but leaue behind Your Sonne George Stanley: looke your heart be firme, Or else his Heads assurance is but fraile Stan.
There my fraile fancy, fed with full delight, Doth bathe in blisse, and mantlcth most at ease; Ne thinks of other heaven, but how it might Her harts desire with most contentment please.
And whatso heavens in their secret doome 225 Ordained have, how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast, but it must needs to issue come?
Thrugh your bright beams doth not the blinded guest Shoot out his darts to base affections wound; But angels come, to lead fraile mindes to rest In chast desires, on heavenly beauty bound.
It may suffice that shee Hath chang’d fraile flesh for blest Eternitie.
Where the grey ramparts of the Risco del Fraile and the Casquerázo frown on a rugged earth below I parted with my old pals, they to continue the ibex-hunt, I on my mournful homeward way.
Greeting his grave: his grudging° ghost did strive With the fraile flesh; at last it flitted is, 170 Whither the soules do fly of men that live amis.
XL He there does now enjoy eternall rest And happy ease, which thou dost want and crave, And further from it daily wanderest: What if some little paine the passage have, 355 That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?
But first thou must a season fast and pray, Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.
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