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... as an American product . It is true that American revivals have had peculiarities growing out of the national temperament and history ; but in the sense of being in spirit limited to one coun- try or another , or one nation or age rather.
... as an American product . It is true that American revivals have had peculiarities growing out of the national temperament and history ; but in the sense of being in spirit limited to one coun- try or another , or one nation or age rather.
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... Spirit in them discoverable ? In what condition of the popular mind are revivals to be looked for ? What agency of the pulpit is prepara- tive to a revival ? What agencies auxiliary to the pulpit are most essential ? Are evangelistic ...
... Spirit in them discoverable ? In what condition of the popular mind are revivals to be looked for ? What agency of the pulpit is prepara- tive to a revival ? What agencies auxiliary to the pulpit are most essential ? Are evangelistic ...
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... spirit which breathes through the Iliad and the Odyssey . Not a trace of the democracy of literature is found in Homer , nor indeed , so far as I know , in any ancient poetry , except the Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews ...
... spirit which breathes through the Iliad and the Odyssey . Not a trace of the democracy of literature is found in Homer , nor indeed , so far as I know , in any ancient poetry , except the Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews ...
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... Spirit , they do not come without premonitions ; that is to say , signs of their approach are visible to eyes which are open , and watchful for them . There is nothing in the philosophy of a revival which locks it up to occult causes ...
... Spirit , they do not come without premonitions ; that is to say , signs of their approach are visible to eyes which are open , and watchful for them . There is nothing in the philosophy of a revival which locks it up to occult causes ...
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... spirit , of his self - forgetfulness , of his eminence in all the passive clerical graces . The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching . It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual ...
... spirit , of his self - forgetfulness , of his eminence in all the passive clerical graces . The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching . It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual ...
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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.