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... reasons for it . They were abundantly satisfied with the de- cision . It came to be generally understood , be- fore long , that a written sermon was never to be expected in the morning ; and after that I was not embarrassed by any ...
... reasons for it . They were abundantly satisfied with the de- cision . It came to be generally understood , be- fore long , that a written sermon was never to be expected in the morning ; and after that I was not embarrassed by any ...
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... reason , you will lose all your hold on them- they will swiftly antagonize you , with indifference or hostility - if they come to sus- pect that you are simply shirking labor in preaching without writing . This is in fact one chief reason ...
... reason , you will lose all your hold on them- they will swiftly antagonize you , with indifference or hostility - if they come to sus- pect that you are simply shirking labor in preaching without writing . This is in fact one chief reason ...
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... reasons . Tell them that you have the strongest conviction that your business in the pulpit is not to read essays , but to fill your mind with clear , profound , quicken- ing impressions of those sublime truths which the Gospel reveals ...
... reasons . Tell them that you have the strongest conviction that your business in the pulpit is not to read essays , but to fill your mind with clear , profound , quicken- ing impressions of those sublime truths which the Gospel reveals ...
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... miseries at the very start , by putting yourself on your feet and at ease with your people at once , through their thorough understanding of what you mean to do , and of the reasons which move you to do it . Let it be distinctly understood.
... miseries at the very start , by putting yourself on your feet and at ease with your people at once , through their thorough understanding of what you mean to do , and of the reasons which move you to do it . Let it be distinctly understood.
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... reason for more intense succeeding effort ; a wing , not a weight ; a spur , to stimu- late to fresh endeavor , and not a stiletto , to stab out the life ! But , FINALLY , Gentlemen : Do no violence to your own nature ; -and if you find ...
... reason for more intense succeeding effort ; a wing , not a weight ; a spur , to stimu- late to fresh endeavor , and not a stiletto , to stab out the life ! But , FINALLY , Gentlemen : Do no violence to your own nature ; -and if you find ...
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Página 212 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 211 - English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Página 221 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 211 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Página 230 - And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal ; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error ; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless.
Página 229 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 230 - Brother, thou art a Man, I think ; thou art not a mere building Beaver, or two-legged Cotton-Spider ; thou hast verily a Soul in thee, asphyxied or otherwise ! Sooty Manchester, — it too is built on the infinite Abysses ; overspanned by the skyey Firmaments ; and there is birth in it, and death in it; — and it is every whit as wonderful, as fearful, unimaginable, as the oldest Salem or Prophetic City.
Página 225 - Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth ; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then he can be trusted...
Página 229 - The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
Página 227 - Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts. It is like the sash of a window ; a heavy sash will obscure the light. The object is to have as little sash as will hold the lights, that we may not think of the frame, but have the most light.