 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character - 1904 - 636 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.' " — " Heroism," Essays, First Series. THE CHARDON STREET CONVENTION The story of these remarkable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 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 - American literature - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1888 - 252 pages
...his own habits of life were always temperate and frugal. His saying about wino has become famous : "It is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." Both as a man, and as an intellectual and spiritual leader, the memory of John Eliot will be cherished... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 578 pages
...precision, his living is natural and poetic. 1894.] [MAY, 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... | |
 | John Traviss Lockwood - 1894 - 36 pages
...that ; for were I sure to go to Heaven to-morrow, I would do what I do to-day." His drink was waler, and he said of wine, "It is a noble, generous liquor,...should be humbly thankful for it; but, as I remember, waler was made before it." He continued to preach as long as his strength held out. With slow and feeble... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...classical mythology, is always young. — From wine what sudden friendship springs I ngs I Gay. Wine is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it ; but, as I remember, water was made before it. — _ John Eliot. Wine mnketh the hand quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 - 1901 - 554 pages
...railing or precision his living i.« 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 - 1903 - 478 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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It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it. 
