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" It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it. "
Genealogy of the Eliot Family - Page 41
by William Smith Porter - 1663 - 184 pages
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, — "It is a noble, generous liquor,...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, — "It is a noble, generous liquor,...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water...
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Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New ..., Volume 1

Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 732 pages
...him was of water and wine, he has with a complaisant gravity replyed unto this purpose : " Wine, 'tis a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it; but, as I remember, water was made before it!" So abstemious was he; and he found that, Carere suavitatibus w/w,f his abstinence had more sweetness...
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Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New ..., Volume 1

Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 676 pages
...him was of water and wine, he has with a complaisant gravity replyed unto this purpose: "Wine, 'tis a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it; but, as I remember, water was made before it!" So abstemious was he; and he found that, Carere suavitatibui istisrf his abstinence had more sweetness...
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Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New ..., Volume 1

Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 680 pages
...him was of water and wine, he has with a complaisant gravity replyed unto this purpose: "Wine, 'tis a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it; but, as I remember, water was made before it!" So abstemious was he; and he found that, Garere suavitatïbus istis,\ his abstinence had more sweetness...
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The American Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives ...

William Allen - History - 1857 - 930 pages
...home, and, when he dined abroad, he seldom tasted any of the luxuries before him. He drank water; and said of wine, " It is a noble, generous liquor, and...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Clothing himself with humility, he actually wore a leathern girdle about his loins. In domestic life...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...without railing or precisliving is Hatural and poetic"! John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, — "It is a noble, generous liquor,...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, " It is a noble, generous liquor, and...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water...
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Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volume 3

New England - 1870 - 330 pages
...stranger's house to take some drink, which he was told was wine and water, he replied, " Wine ! 'tis a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it ; but, as I remember, water was made before it," and water was his drink, to a degree which was far from being common even in those days. He was greatly...
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The Life of John Eliot

Nehemiah Adams - Indians of North America - 1870 - 336 pages
...stranger's house to take some drink, which he was told was wine and water, he replied, "Wine! 'tis a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it ; but, as I remember, water was made before it," and water was his drink, to a degree which was far from being common even in those days. He was greatly...
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