 I have read books enough, and observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time; but I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated men and women, when exerting the spirit of...  Discourses, addresses and memoir - Page 7by Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time; but, I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time ; but I assure you I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends or neighbors, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time; but, I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...afflictions, or speaking their simple thoughts as Io circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of Ihe pages of... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1839 - 420 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time. But 1 assure you, that I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbors, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible." * But the expression of right feeling is one thing,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 430 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time ; but, I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in ray time ; but, I assure you, I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor...thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible. We shall never learn to feel and... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time; but I assure you I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor,...thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbours, than I ever yet met with out of the pages of the Bible.Make the best of your lot, and compare... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...but I assure you I 1 Parker's Reminiscences of Rnfas Choate, pp. 248, 249, 250, 258, 259. have beard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated...circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbors, than I ever yet met with, except in the pages of the Bible." 5. Make a special as well as general preparation... | |
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly cultivated minds, too, in my time ; but I assure you I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor,...and women, when exerting the spirit of severe yet gentler heroism under difficulties and afflictions, or speaking their simple thoughts as to circumstances... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...observed and conversed with enough of eminent and splendidly-cultivated minds, too, in my time; bnt I hive heard higher sentiments from the lips of poor uneducated...and afflictions, or speaking their simple thoughts, than I ever yet met with except in the pages of the Bible. SIB W. SCOTT. AMERICAN FOOD. — It is intimated... | |
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