...case was this — though he was full of courage yet he was to be proved. He had himself expressed, that, " a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kindred." Domestic greatness is unattainable ; and if it does not produce contempt, reduces...

...probably recollected my views when it was suggested that Miss Brewer should go into the school, viz : that a " prophet is not without honor save in his own country," and that 1 thought it would apply to a prophetess, — said I thought it would be safer and better to employ...

...uncle's kindness and instructions. Having remained with his uncle eight or nine months, he returned to Virginia, and commenced the practice of his profession....the capital of the Old Dominion. One friend however, Mr. J. II. STROBIA, patronized and encouraged him. But even at that day, BULLY'S prond spirit despised...

...of his profession. He soon found the ancient sajing but too true in his case, ihat a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country ; and so the poor artist was left to obtain, as host he could, a precarious support in Richmond, the capital of the O'd Dominion. One friend however,...

...the humor of the doctors ; and even at home being thought very little of, according to his own saying that " A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house," as well as the record of John that "his brethren did not believe in him." From his...

...took his engines all off to foreign markets and sold them. Do we not read in the Scriptures of truth- that "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.'' In the autumn of 1805, Richard Anthony, with his brother William, and several other...

...being returned, as the people want a man who knows their affairs. I don't know ubout that. It is said that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and 1 think that a man sometimes has as good a chance a little distance from the place where he is known—...

...answers to these various letters are lost, but from the replies to them we learn, that the proverb that a "prophet is not without honor save in his own country and among his own kindred," was a dominant consideration with him in declining to enter that field. Another...

...necessity of looking abroad for lecturers, if it were not in literature as well as everywhere else, true, "that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house." Professor MITCHELL completed this series by two lectures on Astronomy — in the...

...Bucks, Berks and Northampton, emphatically Albright's home ; and a greater than he had said before him, that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and in his own house." Afterwards, when the theatre of their operations was transferred to distant fields,...