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... claims of the pulpit upon their respect , occa- sionally by men whom it is not uncharitable , and may not be unwise , to rebuke for their unconscious envy of ministerial prerogatives . It is generally to be presumed that the clergy ...
... claims of the pulpit upon their respect , occa- sionally by men whom it is not uncharitable , and may not be unwise , to rebuke for their unconscious envy of ministerial prerogatives . It is generally to be presumed that the clergy ...
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... the lost . And to save , it seeks : it does not wait to be sought . The clergy are ex officio guardians of Christian doctrine . They should claim instant leadership of LECT . IV . ] AN EXCLUSIVE CLERGY . 61 60 [ LECT . IV . MEN AND BOOKS .
... the lost . And to save , it seeks : it does not wait to be sought . The clergy are ex officio guardians of Christian doctrine . They should claim instant leadership of LECT . IV . ] AN EXCLUSIVE CLERGY . 61 60 [ LECT . IV . MEN AND BOOKS .
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... claim . The landed gentry of England flocked to hear White- field , not because of any thing in him which they discovered : the discoverers of his genius were the uncultivated throngs in the fields and on the commons of England . It was ...
... claim . The landed gentry of England flocked to hear White- field , not because of any thing in him which they discovered : the discoverers of his genius were the uncultivated throngs in the fields and on the commons of England . It was ...
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... claim that his right to speak consists in the affluence of his materials , or the elegance of his diction . Yet the élite of Boston and Brooklyn numbered thousands in his audiences . Such critics as those of " The New- York Tribune ...
... claim that his right to speak consists in the affluence of his materials , or the elegance of his diction . Yet the élite of Boston and Brooklyn numbered thousands in his audiences . Such critics as those of " The New- York Tribune ...
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... claim the right to test those creeds as uninspired productions . They will test them by the common sense of men in the interpreta- tion of God's word . In that process they claim that the advance which the human mind has been making in ...
... claim the right to test those creeds as uninspired productions . They will test them by the common sense of men in the interpreta- tion of God's word . In that process they claim that the advance which the human mind has been making in ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.