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... profession equals that of the pulpit in its power to absorb and appropriate to its own uses the world of real life in the present and the world of the past as it lives in books . A very essential part of a preacher's culture , therefore ...
... profession equals that of the pulpit in its power to absorb and appropriate to its own uses the world of real life in the present and the world of the past as it lives in books . A very essential part of a preacher's culture , therefore ...
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... profession . ume . It will be objected , to some of the counsel given in these pages , that to many young preachers it is impracticable . This objection is treated at length near the close of the vol- But at present this should be said ...
... profession . ume . It will be objected , to some of the counsel given in these pages , that to many young preachers it is impracticable . This objection is treated at length near the close of the vol- But at present this should be said ...
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... profession . They give themselves to literature , to sci- ence , to art , to reforms , to social life , to the improve- ment of their private fortunes . Some of our standards in literature have been the work of clergymen who did the ...
... profession . They give themselves to literature , to sci- ence , to art , to reforms , to social life , to the improve- ment of their private fortunes . Some of our standards in literature have been the work of clergymen who did the ...
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... profession . True , the opposite peril also exists ; but it besets only indolent minds . Mental indolence finds a very cheap pabulum in underrating scholastic learning . But studious men are tempted on the side of their scholastic ...
... profession . True , the opposite peril also exists ; but it besets only indolent minds . Mental indolence finds a very cheap pabulum in underrating scholastic learning . But studious men are tempted on the side of their scholastic ...
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... profession as the work of his life . Whatever has been once crystallized and labeled in our cabinet of thought , we are tempted to prize at the cost of those creations which are still in the fluid state , and in the seething process ...
... profession as the work of his life . Whatever has been once crystallized and labeled in our cabinet of thought , we are tempted to prize at the cost of those creations which are still in the fluid state , and in the seething process ...
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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.