Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse; the Elements of Elocution, Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons ... |
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... prevalent throughout the world , have tended to withdraw the mind from the proper methods of proclaiming divine truth . Men have been allured into the sanctuary by less intellectual and more artificial attractions , than those of a racy ...
... prevalent throughout the world , have tended to withdraw the mind from the proper methods of proclaiming divine truth . Men have been allured into the sanctuary by less intellectual and more artificial attractions , than those of a racy ...
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... prevalent passion for distinction and renown , may have contributed much to foster the cultivation of oratory ; it is a fact universally admitted , that the Anglo - Saxon constitution and temperament do not confer a predisposition to ...
... prevalent passion for distinction and renown , may have contributed much to foster the cultivation of oratory ; it is a fact universally admitted , that the Anglo - Saxon constitution and temperament do not confer a predisposition to ...
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... prevalent notion in old and in New England , alike , that manliness demands reserve , and dignity , stiffness , throws a morbid restraint over the tendencies of nature to communication and ex- pression , and prematurely quenches the ...
... prevalent notion in old and in New England , alike , that manliness demands reserve , and dignity , stiffness , throws a morbid restraint over the tendencies of nature to communication and ex- pression , and prematurely quenches the ...
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... prevalent in the pulpit , is uttered with no sparing tone . Students , if they mingled more at large with the world , would hear expressions on this subject , which might well startle them . It is a general complaint , among congrega ...
... prevalent in the pulpit , is uttered with no sparing tone . Students , if they mingled more at large with the world , would hear expressions on this subject , which might well startle them . It is a general complaint , among congrega ...
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... prevalent impression , that no society can flourish under the charge of one who is an indifferent speaker . The world assumes due prep- aration for the duties of the pulpit , as a part of profes- sional education . But , of all the ...
... prevalent impression , that no society can flourish under the charge of one who is an indifferent speaker . The world assumes due prep- aration for the duties of the pulpit , as a part of profes- sional education . But , of all the ...
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Page 249 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 207 - Having, then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 170 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 214 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 248 - Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye Sons of Light, Angels...
Page 328 - SWEET is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks and sing ; To show thy love by morning light, And talk of all thy truth at night.
Page 297 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 307 - They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 276 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 197 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.