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... It should be observed , respecting that portion of this work which discusses the study of books , that its design is limited . I have by no means attempted to give an analysis of English literature , nor to plan the studies of men of iii.
... It should be observed , respecting that portion of this work which discusses the study of books , that its design is limited . I have by no means attempted to give an analysis of English literature , nor to plan the studies of men of iii.
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... respecting the reading of miscellaneous classes , as President Porter has so usefully done in his work on " Books and Reading . " My aim is to answer the inquiries of young pastors whose collegiate training has created liter- ary ...
... respecting the reading of miscellaneous classes , as President Porter has so usefully done in his work on " Books and Reading . " My aim is to answer the inquiries of young pastors whose collegiate training has created liter- ary ...
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... respect that the first orator had . In the study of men a preacher should rank first his own mind . You have in your own selves an original and independent source of rhetorical knowledge . No other can be more so . ( 1 ) In development ...
... respect that the first orator had . In the study of men a preacher should rank first his own mind . You have in your own selves an original and independent source of rhetorical knowledge . No other can be more so . ( 1 ) In development ...
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... respecting means and methods of working , combinations of truth most helpful to success , and the entire furniture of your mind for the work of training characters which are in need of or are under- going similar changes under your ...
... respecting means and methods of working , combinations of truth most helpful to success , and the entire furniture of your mind for the work of training characters which are in need of or are under- going similar changes under your ...
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... respect , as history has thus far given us the means of interpreting them , and yet find time and mental force to create lit- erary standards which shall live to future times . The LECT . I. ] PHILOSOPHY OF REVIVALS . 13 exhortations 12 ...
... respect , as history has thus far given us the means of interpreting them , and yet find time and mental force to create lit- erary standards which shall live to future times . The LECT . I. ] PHILOSOPHY OF REVIVALS . 13 exhortations 12 ...
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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.