| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 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 - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 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 - Literary Collections - 2002 - 111 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 - Literary Collections - 2004 - 256 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... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1846 - 598 pages
...When he dined abroad, he would not indulge himself in the luxuries of the table. He drank water, and said of wine, "it is a noble, generous liquor, and...it, but, as I remember, water was made before it." His maintenance was a free contribution, or raised upon pews, and the people of Roxbury cheerfully... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1837 - 420 pages
...of the grape he did not denounce, but rarely tasted it himself. ' Wine,' he was accustomed to say, ' is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly...it ; but, as I remember, water was made before it.' He thought very justly, that intemperate eating deserved to be severely rebuked, no less than intemperate... | |
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