 | 1900 - 608 páginas
...opportunities of observing, and equal reason to approve and to condemn. The deprived ministers, he says, ' had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge that cottagers and servants could have prayed extempore. I have often overheard them at it ; and though there was a large mixture... | |
 | 1822 - 384 páginas
...their tempers sour, but having no appearance that created respect." " They had brought [he continues] the people to such a degree of knowledge, that cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often heard them at it; and though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been astonished... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 páginas
...their tempers sour, but having no appearance that created respect." " They had brought [he continues] the people to such a degree of knowledge, that cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often heard them at it; and though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been astonished... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - 644 páginas
...where they happened to come, if it was acceptable, they on the sudden expounded the chapter. 1662. They had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often overheard them at it: and, though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been... | |
 | Robert Leighton, James Aikman - 1832 - 758 páginas
...Scripture, and where they happened to come, if it was acceptable, they on the sudden expounded the chapter. They had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often overheard them at it ; and though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 676 páginas
...: and where they happened to come, if it was acceptable, they on the sudden expounded the chapter. They had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often overheard them at it : and, though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1841 - 602 páginas
...a manner, that the gentry paid great respect to them. They used to visit their parishes much ; and had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. As they lived in great familiarity with their people, and used to pray and talk oft with them in private,... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1841 - 704 páginas
...commonalty, by what Bishop Burnet has said of their prayers. " They," says he, speaking of the ministers, " had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often heard them at it ; and though there teas a larof mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1843 - 322 páginas
...such a degree of knowledge, that cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. By these means they had a comprehension of matters of religion greater than I have seen among people of that sort any where. As they (the ministers) lived in great familiarity with their people, and used to pray and... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), James Aikman - 1844 - 758 páginas
...Scripture, and where they happened to come, if it was acceptable, they on the sudden expounded the chapter. They had brought the people to such a degree of knowledge,...cottagers and servants would have prayed extempore. I have often overheard them at it ; and though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been... | |
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I have often overheard them at it : and, though there was a large mixture of odd stuff, yet I have been astonished to hear how copious and ready they were in it. 
