 Sunday : for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered. He has more tricks with a sermon than a tailor with an old cloak, to turn it, and piece it, and at last quite disguise it with a new preface. If he...  Lumley's bibliographical advertiser - Page 331839Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...body imitates some extraordinary. He will not draw his handercher out of his place, nor blow his Nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never looks upon Book, and indeed be was never used to it. He preaches but once a year, though twice a Sunday ; for the itufie is still... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...imitates some one extraordinary. He will not draw bis handkercher out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never looks upon book, and indeed he wa* never used to it. He preaches but once a year, though twice a Sunday ; for the stuff1 is still... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...imitates some one extraordinary. He will not draw his handkercher out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never looks upon book; and indeed he was ne^ ver used to it. He preaches but once a year, though twice on Sunday; for the stuff is still the... | |
 | 1858 - 1246 pages
...preaches heresy, if it comes in hia way, though with a mind, I must needs say, very orthodox. * * * His commendation is that he never looks upon book...indeed, he was never used to it, He preaches but once a-year, though twice on Sunday ; for the stutf is still the same, only the dressing a little altered.... | |
 | David Thomas - 1867 - 764 pages
...draw his handkerchief out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation ib, that he never looks upon book ; and, indeed, he was...though twice on .Sunday, for the stuff is still the snme, only the dressing a little altered ; he has more tricks with a sermon than a tailor with an old... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 660 pages
...and his speech interjection';. He will not draw his handkerchief out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is that he never looks upon book, and indeed he mis never used to it."* Yet, while denying the first place to manner (as embracing action and so much... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...spits with a very good grace. He will not draw his handkerchief out of its place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never...indeed he was never used to it. He preaches but once a-year, though twice on Sunday : for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - Bible - 1872 - 372 pages
...imitates some one extraordinary. He will not draw his handkerchief out of its place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never...indeed, he was never used to it. He preaches but once a-year, though twice on Sunday ; for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered... | |
 | John Tulloch - Cambridge Platonists - 1872 - 494 pages
...in his way, though with a mind, I must needs say, very orthodox. . . . He preaches but once a-year, though twice on Sunday ; for the stuff is still the same, only the dressing a little altered." Of a grave divine : " He makes more conscience of schism than a surplice. He esteems the Church hierarchy... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...people. His style is compounded of twenty several men's, only his body imitates some one extraordinary. His commendation is — that he never looks upon book; and, indeed, he was never nsed to it. He preaches but once a-yesr, though twice on a Sunday ; for the stuff is still the same,... | |
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