... with Sheridan Knowles on this or any other subject ; at the same time I may observe, that when subjects are as plenty as blackberries,' for Knowles especially, who is master of an alchemy to transmute all metals into gold, he need not surely have been placed ...

... churches in particular towns and districts of the country. It never occurs to them that churches may be as plentiful as blackberries, and yet the spiritual destitution be nearly as great as if there were no churches at all. This may appear paradoxical ...