My lecture contains but little. Such is the scantiness of the materials on which I had to work, that it could not have contained much: if according to the dramatist, the "amount be beggarly," it is because the "boxes are empty."


The Testimony of the Rocks; of, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two, Theologies, Natural and Revealed, Lecture Eleventh (p. 462), Gould & Lincoln. 1857

Hugh Miller Quotes

My lecture contains but little. Such is the scantiness of the materials on which I had to work, that it could not have contained much: if according...

My lecture contains but little. Such is the scantiness of the materials on which I had to work, that it could not have contained much: if according...

My lecture contains but little. Such is the scantiness of the materials on which I had to work, that it could not have contained much: if according...

My lecture contains but little. Such is the scantiness of the materials on which I had to work, that it could not have contained much: if according...