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... Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu- cated Classes • LECTURE IV . Study of Men , continued . - Popular Revolutions distorted for the Want of Educated Leadership ; the Clergy the Natural Leaders of the Popular Mind . - The ...
... Popular Revolutions often Independent of the Edu- cated Classes • LECTURE IV . Study of Men , continued . - Popular Revolutions distorted for the Want of Educated Leadership ; the Clergy the Natural Leaders of the Popular Mind . - The ...
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... Popular Literature ; Prolific of Models of Persuasive Speech ix PAGE ⚫ 160 LECTURE XII . Recognition of an American Literature in our Studies ; its Intrin- sic Worth in some Departments ; an Offshoot of the Literature of England ...
... Popular Literature ; Prolific of Models of Persuasive Speech ix PAGE ⚫ 160 LECTURE XII . Recognition of an American Literature in our Studies ; its Intrin- sic Worth in some Departments ; an Offshoot of the Literature of England ...
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... popular heart . Such awakenings , therefore , are a very vital object of a preacher's study . Generally , sympathetic religious excitements are the result of preaching . Consecutive plans of preaching should contemplate them , and be ...
... popular heart . Such awakenings , therefore , are a very vital object of a preacher's study . Generally , sympathetic religious excitements are the result of preaching . Consecutive plans of preaching should contemplate them , and be ...
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... popular history . They are known and read of all men . They assume the importance of crises in the history of nations . In our own day they are growing to the magnitude of the old Roman gladiatorial shows . The simple power of speech ...
... popular history . They are known and read of all men . They assume the importance of crises in the history of nations . In our own day they are growing to the magnitude of the old Roman gladiatorial shows . The simple power of speech ...
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... popular awak- enings ? Does the subsidence of a revival imply reli- gious decline ? Does popular re - action from a revival neutralize its value ? What policy of the pulpit should characterize the period immediately following a revival ...
... popular awak- enings ? Does the subsidence of a revival imply reli- gious decline ? Does popular re - action from a revival neutralize its value ? What policy of the pulpit should characterize the period immediately following a revival ...
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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.