| Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - 1826 - 384 páginas
...with edification. Hamilton, curate of Leith, commenced a discourse with the following exordium : — " I shall not nibble at niceties, nor ingeminate prolixities...allenarly for the meridian of that microcosm, man." Gladstone, curate of Yethohn, demonstrated to his congregation how may myriads of angels could stand... | |
| Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - 1826 - 386 páginas
...with edification. Hamilton, curate of Leith, commenced a discourse with the following exordium : — " I shall not nibble at niceties, nor ingeminate prolixities ; but, with the sword of brevity, shnU cut the Gor dian knot of obscurity, and so proceed to give you the genuine purport of this mellifluous... | |
| Jacob Curate (pseud.) - 1847 - 360 páginas
...together, and its not unlikely was a sharer in the villany. Mr John Hamilton, curate of South Lcith, and his underling Mr Cant, strove which of them should...this mellifluous and aromatical subject, calculated alienarly for the meridian of that microcosm man ; and this was their ordinary before an unlearned... | |
| George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1878 - 540 páginas
...such like ; after giving out his text, " Oh ! Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself," he continued " I shall not nibble at niceties nor ingeminate prolixities,...allenarly for the meridian, of that microcosm, man." When I was told this in Leith, I naturally asked, are there no Lunatic Asylums in Scotland ? A conceited... | |
| 1880 - 882 páginas
...following, with which he introduced a sermon upon the text, 11 0 Israel^thou hast destroyed thyself:" "I shall not nibble at niceties, nor ingeminate prolixities,...brevity shall cut the Gordian knot of obscurity, and во proceed to give you the genuina purport of this mellifluous and aromática! subject, calculated... | |
| Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1881 - 396 páginas
...Preaching one day on the text, " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself," he commenced in these words : " I shall not nibble at niceties, nor ingeminate prolixities,...mellifluous and aromatical subject, calculated allenarly [only] for the meridian of that microcosm, man." And in this manner he preached to the uneducated congregation... | |
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