I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.[604:2]

Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher.

Footnotes

[598:1] See Byron, page [544].

[599:1] I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.—Rumbold (when on the scaffold).

[599:2]

No war or battle sound

Was heard the world around.

Milton: Hymn of Christ's Nativity, line 31.

[601:1] Everything comes if a man will only wait.—Disraeli: Tancred, book iv. chap. viii.