 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, " It is a noble, genercms liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was mado before it." Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - Rosbury, Mass - 1878 - 512 pages
...rebuked in the wise and grave order of his own house. Frugal and temperate through a long life, he never indulged in the luxuries of the table. His drink was...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." So strong was his prejudice against wearing wigs, that he thought all the calamities of the country,... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - New England - 1879 - 512 pages
...God my faith and charity grow." He j dressed plainly and drank nothing but water, saying, "Wine is aj noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly thankful...it; but, as I remember, water was made before it." His portrait was j discovered in London by William Whiting, in 1851, and is engraved j for Mr. Drake's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact? Well, souls neve j for it, but, as I remember, water was made , before it." Better still is the temperance of King David,... | |
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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. 
