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... speaking . Observe , that , when we speak of models of effective writing and speaking , we include all successful and permanent literature . The grand test of power in speech is the Napoleonic test of character , - success . The final ...
... speaking . Observe , that , when we speak of models of effective writing and speaking , we include all successful and permanent literature . The grand test of power in speech is the Napoleonic test of character , - success . The final ...
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... speak of a preacher's STUDY OF MEN and of his STUDY OF BOOKS as sources of oratorical discipline . I. Upon a preacher's independent study of men the following suggestions deserve remembrance : - 1. Every preacher may obtain much of ...
... speak of a preacher's STUDY OF MEN and of his STUDY OF BOOKS as sources of oratorical discipline . I. Upon a preacher's independent study of men the following suggestions deserve remembrance : - 1. Every preacher may obtain much of ...
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... speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every preacher has also a source of rhetorical culture in the study of other ... speak right out what they think and as they feel , with no consciousness of trying either to think or to feel , are ...
... speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every preacher has also a source of rhetorical culture in the study of other ... speak right out what they think and as they feel , with no consciousness of trying either to think or to feel , are ...
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... speak as to " one whom his mother comforteth . " What delicacy of touch , what refinement of speech , what tenderness of tone , what reverent approach as to holy ground , do we not need to discharge this part of a preacher's mission ...
... speak as to " one whom his mother comforteth . " What delicacy of touch , what refinement of speech , what tenderness of tone , what reverent approach as to holy ground , do we not need to discharge this part of a preacher's mission ...
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... speak to real conditions , and minister to exigent necessities . Intelligent laymen are often sensible of waste in the ministrations of the pulpit , growing out of the want , either of knowledge , or of tact in adapting them to the ...
... speak to real conditions , and minister to exigent necessities . Intelligent laymen are often sensible of waste in the ministrations of the pulpit , growing out of the want , either of knowledge , or of tact in adapting them to 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.