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... my own mind through it with any sense of liberty and vigor . The whole sermon became a series of jerks . There was no gathered and helpful mo- mentum , toward the end , or anywhere else . I lost the foresight of the end from the beginning ;
... my own mind through it with any sense of liberty and vigor . The whole sermon became a series of jerks . There was no gathered and helpful mo- mentum , toward the end , or anywhere else . I lost the foresight of the end from the beginning ;
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Richard Salter Storrs. lost the foresight of the end from the beginning ; was wholly engrossed in taking each successive step correctly , when I should come to it . I became timid , retrospective , and had no sense of real mastery over ...
Richard Salter Storrs. lost the foresight of the end from the beginning ; was wholly engrossed in taking each successive step correctly , when I should come to it . I became timid , retrospective , and had no sense of real mastery over ...
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... beginning of every sentence one should be able to look to the end of it , that he himself may be carried on , and his hearers with him , with ease and steadiness , to its foreseen conclusion . Not all men have the wit and wisdom of ...
... beginning of every sentence one should be able to look to the end of it , that he himself may be carried on , and his hearers with him , with ease and steadiness , to its foreseen conclusion . Not all men have the wit and wisdom of ...
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... beginning , a middle , and an end ; and the habit of forming them easily , naturally , comes with the diligent use of the pen . * One needs too this discipline of careful writ ing to systematize his thoughts ; to make his analysis of ...
... beginning , a middle , and an end ; and the habit of forming them easily , naturally , comes with the diligent use of the pen . * One needs too this discipline of careful writ ing to systematize his thoughts ; to make his analysis of ...
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... beginning upon my subject this afternoon , that I have been occupied , to - day , before leaving home , with some of those sad and exacting duties of which every minister meets so many , which for the time wholly occupy his mind , and ...
... beginning upon my subject this afternoon , that I have been occupied , to - day , before leaving home , with some of those sad and exacting duties of which every minister meets so many , which for the time wholly occupy his mind , and ...
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Página 229 - 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, 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 217 - Wisdom herself hath stretched forth her hands and no man regarded, — thirty minutes to raise the dead in, — let us but once understand and feel this, and we shall look with changed eyes upon that frippery of gay furniture about the place from which the message of judgment must be delivered...