He, from a scruple of his eternal conscience, detained us until after the people had got into church, and then he accompanied us in his own illustrious person.
We turned aside a little from our way to visit Mr.Hosmer, a yeoman, of whose homely and self-acquired wisdom Mr.Emerson has a very high opinion." "He had a fine flow of talk, and not much diffidence about his own opinions.

I was not impressed with any remarkable originality in his views, but they were sensible and characteristic.

Methought, however, the good yeoman was not quite so natural as he may have been at an earlier period.

The simplicity of his character has probably suffered by his detecting the impression he makes on those around him.

There is a circle, I suppose, who look up to him as an oracle, and so he inevitably assumes the oracular manner, and speaks as if truth and wisdom were attiring themselves by his voice.