"Barret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... For the most part it is a chronicle of small beer, the diarist jotting down the minutiae {353} of his domestic life and private affairs, even to the recording of such haps as this: "March 23, I had my hair cut by G. Barret." But it also affords instructive glimpses of public events, such as King Philip's War, the Quaker troubles, the English Revolution of 1688, etc. It bears about the same relation to New England history at the close of the seventeenth century as Bradford's ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... Brevet Brigadier General. C. C. Andrews, Brigadier and Brevet Major General. John T. Averill, Brevet Brigadier General. James H. Baker, Brevet Brigadier General. Theodore E. Barret, Brevet Brigadier General. Judson W. Bishop, Brevet Brigadier General. William Colville, Brevet Brigadier General. Napoleon J. T. Dana, Major General. Alonzo J. Edgerton, Brevet Brigadier General. Willis A. Gorman, Brigadier General. Lucius F. Hubbard, Brevet Brigadier General. Samuel P. ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau
... entering into the choir, was inscribed in Latin, "Under this marble rests the body of Humfred Barret, son of John Barret, gentleman, who died A.D. 1501." On a fair stone, in the chancel, ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... documents inserted relating to articles in the collection. One of these runs 'Effigies William Shakespeare Britanni ad fidem tabell unic manu Richard Burbage depict (circa annum, ut videtur, 1609) per R. Barret Londinensem quam exactissim expressa anno 1759, curantibus David Garrick et Edward Capell. Capell's Collection given to y^e College 1779'. Another is headed 'Extract of a letter to M^r. Capell, that accompany'd a Cast from ...
— Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge • W. W. Greg
... of the Hon. William Barret Ridgely, who married one of my daughters, and who served as United States Comptroller of the Currency for a number of years, was one of the leading bankers of the State, and was reputed to be one of the first millionaires of Illinois. He was a very careful banker, and was probably too ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom |
