| Samuel Butler - 1866 - 366 páginas
...opinion. He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter When they throw out and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 190 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be... | |
| Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 páginas
...comment, He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smaller When they throw out and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; . 190 'Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 páginas
...FitzSimon enters into some details regarding his faith and morals, from which it would appear — " That his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Who prove their doctrine orthodox... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 páginas
...comment, He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter When they throw out and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...sores of faith are cured again; Although, by woeful proof, we fmd They always leave a scar behind. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant... | |
| 1874 - 576 páginas
...Puritans ; and few pieces have been so often quoted against them by churchmen as the following lines : il For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...pebble-stones When he harangued, but known his phrase, He would have used no other ways. Religion of HmJibras. corpse was decked by the cordwainer's wife with ' a garland of 'Twas Presbyterian true-blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 páginas
...knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. He was deep in school divinity, and For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : "Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 páginas
...He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter, When they throw out, and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : i»o 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; 2 For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant Saints, whom all... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 páginas
...heard three labourers of Babel, Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once. And this : For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit. Twas Presbyterian true-blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
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