 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians...good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but...very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 101 seeming to be rather to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but...good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians, " Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 332 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications 1 of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, ho»est,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length lie took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, aud were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying; since not a single moral principle was... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians, " Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but...aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians thanf good citizens. At length he took for his -text that verse of the fourth chapter of Philippians,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 Seiten
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but...moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their ains seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his text... | |
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I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses... 
