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... young pastors whose collegiate training has created liter- ary aspirations which ought to be perpetuated in the life- long labors of their profession . ume . It will be objected , to some of the counsel given in these pages , that to ...
... young pastors whose collegiate training has created liter- ary aspirations which ought to be perpetuated in the life- long labors of their profession . ume . It will be objected , to some of the counsel given in these pages , that to ...
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... Young Preachers.— Living Speakers as Models ; Magnitude of Unwritten Litera- ture ; its Representative Character ; Powerlessness of the Press to express it ; Necessity of the Study of it to True Conceptions of Oral Eloquence ; Essay and ...
... Young Preachers.— Living Speakers as Models ; Magnitude of Unwritten Litera- ture ; its Representative Character ; Powerlessness of the Press to express it ; Necessity of the Study of it to True Conceptions of Oral Eloquence ; Essay and ...
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... young London author , saying , " Never write a page till you have walked from your room to Temple Bar , mingling with men , and reading the human face . " He adds the fact that great poets have , for the most part , passed their lives ...
... young London author , saying , " Never write a page till you have walked from your room to Temple Bar , mingling with men , and reading the human face . " He adds the fact that great poets have , for the most part , passed their lives ...
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... young man once inquired of me , " Can you direct me to a book which shall teach me to write a sermon ? " I receive letters of inquiry founded on the same ideal of homiletic discipline . " No , " must the answer be : " there is no such ...
... young man once inquired of me , " Can you direct me to a book which shall teach me to write a sermon ? " I receive letters of inquiry founded on the same ideal of homiletic discipline . " No , " must the answer be : " there is no such ...
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... some ministers to seek chiefly " the society of the rich and the lettered , " as he describes them , " instead of being lights to the world . " He adds , " The democracy Common people Young men require must be reached . People.
... some ministers to seek chiefly " the society of the rich and the lettered , " as he describes them , " instead of being lights to the world . " He adds , " The democracy Common people Young men require must be reached . People.
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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.