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... Illustrations of the Want of it . - Peril of an Educated Min- istry . - Study of Books conducive to Self - appreciation • . 111 - LECTURE IX . Impracticable Plans of Reading . - Selection of Authors . - Worthless Books . - Universal ...
... Illustrations of the Want of it . - Peril of an Educated Min- istry . - Study of Books conducive to Self - appreciation • . 111 - LECTURE IX . Impracticable Plans of Reading . - Selection of Authors . - Worthless Books . - Universal ...
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... Illustrated 281 LECTURE XX . - Methods of Study , continued . - Reading with Practice in Compo- sition ; improves the Quality of Study ; promotes Originality . Proportion of Executive Power to Critical Taste . - Methods of connecting ...
... Illustrated 281 LECTURE XX . - Methods of Study , continued . - Reading with Practice in Compo- sition ; improves the Quality of Study ; promotes Originality . Proportion of Executive Power to Critical Taste . - Methods of connecting ...
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... illustrations , appeals , but by prolonged plans of ministerial effort , which they know , when they fairly awaken to the realities of the case , have no root in the underground of their own characters . Revivals of religion are ...
... illustrations , appeals , but by prolonged plans of ministerial effort , which they know , when they fairly awaken to the realities of the case , have no root in the underground of their own characters . Revivals of religion are ...
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... illustration , take the change which has been going on for the last twenty years in the Christian theory of amusements . That change is a very signifi- cant one . It is one to which the ministry , whenever they recognize it , will find ...
... illustration , take the change which has been going on for the last twenty years in the Christian theory of amusements . That change is a very signifi- cant one . It is one to which the ministry , whenever they recognize it , will find ...
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... illustrations of waste in clerical power , in which the people quietly shove aside the teaching of the pulpit as nothing but perfunctory deliverances . The preacher is imagined to preach them because it is his business to do it , he is ...
... illustrations of waste in clerical power , in which the people quietly shove aside the teaching of the pulpit as nothing but perfunctory deliverances . The preacher is imagined to preach them because it is his business to do it , he is ...
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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.