 | Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...crowds. We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,—their... | |
 | Thomas Mac Crie (D.D., the younger.) - 1849 - 696 pages
...crowds. We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...were, indeed, amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable of arguing upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...texts of scripture at hand, and were ready with their answera to any thing that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...crowds. We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 468 pages
...all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was...of them, — their cottagers and their servants." (Memoirs, vol. ip 431.) instructed people pressed outwards beyond the narrow bounds of their country,... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Scotland - 1851 - 512 pages
...indeed amazed," says he, " to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...of religion. Upon all these topics they had texts at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of knowledge... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Presbyterianism - 1854 - 512 pages
...indeed amazed," says he, " to see a poor commonalty so capable lo argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matlers of religion. Upon all ihese topics they had lexis al hand, and were ready wilh iheir answers... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Church of Scotland - 1856 - 506 pages
...indeed amazed," says he, " to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...of religion. Upon all these topics they had texts at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of knowledge... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1857 - 526 pages
...crowds. "We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, or on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1860 - 438 pages
...We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to. argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religiom. Upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers... | |
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We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion ; upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand ; and were ready with... 
