 ... drink ; which inclines some of them to sleep, works up the enthusiasm of others, and contributes not a little to produce those miraculous conversions that sometimes happen at these occasions ; in a word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture...  Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men, Manners, and Things - Page 253by David Hoffman - 1841 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | A. T. Blacksmith, John Witherspoon, Lord Henry Home Kames, John Horne Tooke - Public worship - 1824 - 98 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages and characters. When you...get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for that can only reach a small circle,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly, there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a * Untie these bands from off my hands, And bring to me my sword, And there's no man the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words (for that can only reach a small circle),... | |
 | Mrs. John Burnett Pratt - 1845 - 268 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you...get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for that can only reach a small circle,... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a^coufusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for that can only reach a small circle,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you...get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for that can only reach a small circle,... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you...speaker, so as to be within reach of the sound though not the sense of the words—for that can only reach a small circle -—you will find some weeping and... | |
 | Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you get a little nearer to the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1899 - 298 pages
...circle sitting on an ale barrel, many of which stand on carts for the refreshment of the saints. . . . When you get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within reach of the sound, if not of the sense of his words—for that can only reach a small circle, even when the preacher is... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1906 - 568 pages
...circle sitting on an ale barrel, many of which stand on carts for the refreshment of the saints. . . . When you get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within reach of the sound, if not of the sense of his words — for that can only reach a small circle, even when the preacher... | |
 | 1845 - 960 pages
...word, in this sacred assembly there is an odd mixture of religion, sleep, drinking, courtship, and a confusion of sexes, ages, and characters. When you...get a little nearer the speaker, so as to be within the reach of the sound, though not of the sense of the words, for that can only reach a small circle,... | |
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