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Verily, faith will remove mountains, if only you do join with it any fair portion of the dove and serpent attributes. I found here, too, a wealthy manufacturer, who had written many valuable pamphlets on popular subjects.
He said: "Now that the progress of public opinion was beginning to make the Church and the Army narrower fields for the younger sons of 'noble' families, they sometimes wish to enter into trade; but, beside the aversion which had been instilled into them for many centuries, they had rarely patience and energy for the apprenticeship requisite to give the needed knowledge of the world and habits of labor." Of Cobden he said: "He is inferior in acquirements to very many of his class, as he is self-educated and had everything to learn after he was grown up; but in clear insight there is none like him." A man of very little education, whom I met a day or two after in the stage-coach, observed to me: "Bright is far the more eloquent of the two, but Cobden is more felt, just _because_ his speeches are so plain, so merely matter-of-fact and to the point." We became acquainted also with Dr.Gregory, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, a very enlightened and benevolent man, who in many ways both instructed and benefited us.
He is the friend of Liebig, and one of his chief representatives here. We also met a fine specimen of the noble, intelligent Scotchwoman, such as Walter Scott and Burns knew how to prize.
Seventy-six years have passed over her head, only to prove in her the truth of my theory, that we need never grow old.
She was "brought up" in the animated and intellectual circle of Edinburgh, in youth an apt disciple, in her prime a bright ornament of that society.
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