 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...philosophers. Spend ten or twelve yean upon Horace or Terence. To illustrate a billct-doux or a drunken catch, will do you more credit, and be of greater service...sentiments, and speak always with the vulgar : you «ea present example in the great BentJey : What a reputation he has acquired by ih1- noble edition... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1790 - 620 pages
...and be of greater service to you, than the most useful employment of your time upon the Sci-ipturet ; unless you can resolve to conceal your sentiments, and speak always with the vulgar." See "The Difficulties and Discouragements which atteud the ^tudy of the Scriptures in the way of Private... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1867 - 680 pages
...themselves to heathen literature, and thither the Bishop urges the young clergyman to follow them. " Spend ten or twelve years upon Horace or Terence....your sentiments and speak always with the vulgar." This daubing of a wall with untempered mortar seems much to the liking of the writer in " Eraser,"... | |
 | Christianity - 1867 - 600 pages
...themselves to heathen literature, and thither the Bishop urges the young clergyman to follow them. " Spend ten or twelve years upon Horace or Terence....your sentiments and speak always with the vulgar." This daubing of a wall with untempered mortar seems much to the liking of the writer in " Eraser,"... | |
 | W. H. Daniels - Methodism - 1880 - 804 pages
...passage in a pagan writer, that a modest man would blush at, will do you more credit and be of more service to you than the most useful employment of your time upon the Scriptures, unless you resolve to conceal your sentiment and speak always with the vulgar." The popular literature of the... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - Andover case - 1887 - 140 pages
...the faith. ... In a word orthodoxy atones for all vices and heresy extinguishes all virtues. . . . Turn yourself to the study of the heathen historians,...sentiments, and speak always with the vulgar. . . . You have two ways before you. One will enable you to be useful in the world, without great trouble to yourself.... | |
 | Herbert Asbury - Bishops - 1927 - 400 pages
...passage in a pagan writer, that a modest man would blush at, will do you more credit and be of more service to you than the most useful employment of your time upon the Scriptures, unless you resolve to conceal your sentiment and speak always with the vulgar." 7 The Rev. Augustus M. Toplady,... | |
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Spend ten or twelve years upon Horace or Terence. To illustrate a billet-doux or a drunken catch, to explain an obscene jest, to make a happy emendation on a passage that a modest man would blush at, will do you more credit and be of greater service to... 