 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 páginas
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...time, is only what follows : I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friend of ours said to me, 'I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 páginas
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions." After all, however, it is a difficult question how far sincere Christians should associate with the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...lady of Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart. — BOSWELL. RKV. GEORGE WHITEFIRLD. drunk to-morrow." JOHNSON : He had devoted himself to the lower classes of mankind,...time, is only what follows : — I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friend of ours said to me, " I... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's Ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must bear down such pretensions. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, Life by Boswell, ed. Hill, vol. in, p. 465 It... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...than others, but by doing what was strange. I never treated Whitefield 's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions." BOSWELL. "Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir; Dublin is only a worse capital."... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 páginas
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...during the remainder of my stay in London at this tune, is only what follows: I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
....would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such 1779 pretensions." 58 [An observation which Boswell derived from Langton, 1780 a friend of Johnson's.]... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such 1779 pretensions." 58 [An observation which. Boswell derived from Langton, 1780 a friend of Johnson's.]... | |
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Astley to preach a sermon standing upon his head on a horse's back, he would collect a multitude to hear him ; but no wise man would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good.... 
