 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. ' I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...hands than with those of God ; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring less of ingenuity and skill than those which engage the attention... | |
 | George Henry Borrow - 1843 - 408 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...hands than with those of God ; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring less of ingenuity and skill than those which engage the attention... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. "I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...hands than with those of God ; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring less of ingenuity and skill than those which engage the attention... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. "I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency to religion and piety than nmongst the inhabitants of towns and cities, and the reason is obvious: they are less acquainted with... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...ehiMren of the fields a more determined tendency le religion and piety than amongst the inhabitants •f towns and cities, and the reason is obvious, — they are less acquainted with tlie works of man's lands than with those of God ; their occupations, lo». which are simple, and requiring... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1844 - 480 pages
...been remarked by a modern traveller of considerable depth of observation, that he had always found in the children of the fields a more determined tendency to religion and piety than amongst the dwellers in towns and cities, and that he conceived the reason to be obvious — that the inhabitants... | |
 | George Borrow - 1845 - 240 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. Xl have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...man's hands than with those of God; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring less of ingenuity and skill than those which engage the attention... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1861 - 696 pages
...amongst the rural population of any country, but avows that he has " always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...inhabitants of towns and cities, and the reason," he adds, " is obvious — they are less acquainted with the works of man's hands than with those of... | |
 | 1883 - 446 pages
...what G. Barrow says, in his book, The Bible in Spain — ' I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...reason is obvious — they are less acquainted with the work of man's hands than with those of God ; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring... | |
 | George Borrow - 1907 - 536 pages
...companions, who were by this time a considerable way in advance. I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency...: they are less acquainted with the works of man's hands'than with those of God ; their occupations, too, which are simple, and requiring less of ingenuity... | |
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I have always found in the disposition of the children of the fields a more determined tendency to religion and piety than amongst the inhabitants of towns and cities, and the reason is obvious, they are less acquainted with the works of man's hands than... 
