"Chapel service" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not only for use in family worship, but for the chapel service of colleges, universities, and by teachers in the ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... lucrative appointments indicated the sincerity of Napoleon's intentions. The composer did not hesitate to stand on his rights as a musician on all occasions. When Napoleon complained of the inefficiency of the chapel service, he said, courageously: "I can't blame people for doing their duty carelessly, when they are not justly paid." The cunning Italian knew how to flatter, though, when occasion served. He once ...
— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris
... remembered favors received from humble persons. "Send a little cup, worth at least a hundred florins, to Hartmann Wolf," he wrote to his brother; "you can take as much silver out of the coffer, in which there is still some of my chapel service remaining."—"You will observe that Affenstein is wanting a horse," he wrote on another occasion; "please look him out one, and send it to me with the price. I will send you the money. Since he has shown himself so willing in the cause, one ought ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley |
