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... judgment was not uttered in bitterness of feeling . I did not understand that the author of it belonged to that class of men , who are not few in any large community , who are best known as haters of ministers . He spoke from his ...
... judgment was not uttered in bitterness of feeling . I did not understand that the author of it belonged to that class of men , who are not few in any large community , who are best known as haters of ministers . He spoke from his ...
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... judgment of the pulpit to affirm that in our times it has reversed the apostolic proportions of preaching in this respect ? It is vastly easier to denounce rampant sin than to cheer struggling virtue . Preaching to the ungodly is more ...
... judgment of the pulpit to affirm that in our times it has reversed the apostolic proportions of preaching in this respect ? It is vastly easier to denounce rampant sin than to cheer struggling virtue . Preaching to the ungodly is more ...
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... judgment by direct testimony from that golden age of English letters : On one Sunday morning , in one of the rural churches , the service was read with unusual rapidity , and every legal expedient adopted to shorten the time during ...
... judgment by direct testimony from that golden age of English letters : On one Sunday morning , in one of the rural churches , the service was read with unusual rapidity , and every legal expedient adopted to shorten the time during ...
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... judgment upon it ; their sympathies made it what it was . So far as any Pagan literature could foreshadow a Christian institution , the Greek drama foreshadowed the Christian pulpit . It did so with an approach to resemblance which has ...
... judgment upon it ; their sympathies made it what it was . So far as any Pagan literature could foreshadow a Christian institution , the Greek drama foreshadowed the Christian pulpit . It did so with an approach to resemblance which has ...
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... judgment , it does not admit of compact answer in this form . The question ' of leadership is a question of dates . It is in the beginnings of such move- ments , before they have reached the stage of agitation , that the work of the ...
... judgment , it does not admit of compact answer in this form . The question ' of leadership is a question of dates . It is in the beginnings of such move- ments , before they have reached the stage of agitation , that the work of the ...
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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.