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... carry out the plan which I had proposed , and preach without a manuscript before me ; but it was all the time like swimming up the rapids , while with the manuscript I had only to float easily on the current . I tried to combine the ...
... carry out the plan which I had proposed , and preach without a manuscript before me ; but it was all the time like swimming up the rapids , while with the manuscript I had only to float easily on the current . I tried to combine the ...
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... carry 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 ...
... carry 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 ...
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... carry out this plan of preaching with- out notes , occasionally at least , at all hazards . I was twenty - five years old , and thought I knew something : as men are apt to think , at that time of life . I had had a year's practice in ...
... carry out this plan of preaching with- out notes , occasionally at least , at all hazards . I was twenty - five years old , and thought I knew something : as men are apt to think , at that time of life . I had had a year's practice in ...
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... carried over the bar by the swelling tide which imperceptibly swings it upward . They were more sympa- thetic ; I was more strongly moved by my sub- jects , and more intent on practical results : and so I began to get hold of them , at ...
... carried over the bar by the swelling tide which imperceptibly swings it upward . They were more sympa- thetic ; I was more strongly moved by my sub- jects , and more intent on practical results : and so I began to get hold of them , at ...
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... carried written sermons to Braintree , and read them , as well as I could , in his pulpit . It happened , however , on a special occa- sion , that he was very desirous that I should preach when I had no manuscript with me . I was ...
... carried written sermons to Braintree , and read them , as well as I could , in his pulpit . It happened , however , on a special occa- sion , that he was very desirous that I should preach when I had no manuscript with me . I was ...
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