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" With a little oatmeal for food, and a little sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills, sung his psalm out of tune his own way, and listened... "
The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 49
1809
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 17

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 682 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...for friction — allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other—Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 17

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1845 - 696 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...for friction — allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other — Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Volume 3

Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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Nuts and Nutcrackers

Charles James Lever - 1845 - 272 pages
...Scottish Life" have any reference to that romantic people, who betake themselves to their native mountains with a little oatmeal for food and a little sulphur for friction ; do not believe one syllable about the girls of the west ; trust not in the representations of their...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...INTOLERANCE. tions ; but to their astonishment and horror, they could not introduce the book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - 1850 - 736 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...our true way. With a little oatmeal for food, and a litlle sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Cidvinistioal...
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Essays and Reviews, Volume 1

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...that the Percevals of those days were not able, by persecution and bloodshed, to prevent the Scotch, " that metaphysical people, from going to heaven their true way, instead of our true way," he immediately adds — "With a little oatmeal for food, and a little sulphur for friction, allaying...
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The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches

Sydney Smith - 1852 - 246 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

1853 - 458 pages
...astonishment and horror of the Percevals of those days, they could not introduce the Book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation with the one hand, and holding his Calvinistical creed in the other, Sawney ran away to his flinty hills,...
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Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners

Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...INTOLERANCE. tions ; but to their astonishment and horror, they could not introduce the book of Common Prayer, nor prevent that metaphysical people from...going to heaven their true way, instead of our true wav. With a little oatmeal for food, and a little sulphur for friction, allaying cutaneous irritation...
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