 I think Channing an admirable writer. So much sense and eloquence ! such a command of language ! Yet admirable as his sermon on war is, I have the vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and...  Anniversary of the American Unitarian Association - Page 26by American Unitarian Association - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 604 pages
...admirable writer. Yet admirable as his sermon on war is, I have the vanity to think my own equally good ; and you will be the more inclined to agree with me...Paul's the identical sermon which Lord Grey so much admired. I thought I could not write anything half so good ; so I preached Channing." The writer, after... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible,, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and fine language; and you will be the more Inclined...Grey so much admires. I thought I could not write anytliing half so good, so I preached C banning." MBS. SIDDSNS. Cl The gods do not bestow such a face... | |
 | 1857 - 992 pages
...admirable writer. Yet admirable as his sermon on war is, I have the vanity to think my own equally good ; and you will be the more inclined to agree with me...in St Paul's the identical sermon which Lord Grey BO much admired I thought I could not write anything half so good ; so I preached Channing." It is... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, lady Saha Smith Holland Holland - 1855 - 582 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and fine language ; and you will be the more inclined...I thought I could not write anything half so good, so I preached Channing. You can hardly expect to go on straightforward in recovering ; sometimes you... | |
 | Lady Holland - 1855 - 658 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and fine language ; and you will be the more inclined...I thought I could not write anything half so good, so I preached Channing. You can hardly expect to go on straightforward in recovering; sometimes you... | |
 | lady Saba Holland - 1855 - 588 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle aud fine language ; and you will be the more inclined...I thought I could not write anything half so good, so I preached Channing. You can hardly expect to go on straightforward in recovering ; sometimes you... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and fine language; and you will be the more inclined...sermon which Lord Grey so much admires. I thought I coidd not write anything half so good, so I preached Channing."—II. 528. If any Unitarian minister... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pages
...admirable writer. Tet admirable as his sermon on war is, I have the vanity to think my own equally good; and you will be the more inclined to agree with me in thia comparison, when I tell you that I preached in St. Paul's the identical sermon which Lord Grey... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 pages
...vanity to think my own equally good, quite as sensible, quite as eloquent, as full of good principle and fine language ; and you will be the more inclined...I thought I could not write anything half so good, so I preached Channing. — SMITH, SYDNEY, 1844, To the Countess Grey, March 27 ; Letters, ed. Mrs.... | |
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