 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 páginas
..."I talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregation ; a practice, for which they wiJl be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness... | |
 | 1854 - 622 páginas
...both. £inney. Dr. Johnson said, talking to a friend of his, of the success of the Methodists: — "It is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...to the common people, and which clergymen of genius ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists * have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...good to the common people, and which clergymen of genins and learning onght to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 páginas
...and good which is the only way lo do goo:\ to the пчпmon people, and which clergymen of p-niu« and learning ought to do from a principle of duty,...congregations; a practice, for which they will be praiseil \>j men of sense. To insist against drunkemw* as a crime, because it debases reason, the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called methodists 3 have. JoirasoN. " Sir, aving existed was also held in England, where there is a tenure called Bor 1 No doubt there is a hunger and Mrll of the mind as well as of the brtdy ; mark the intellectual voracity... | |
 | George Herbert Curteis - 1872 - 482 páginas
...the great Methodist movement, — the whole secret of its success was, that the preachers 'expressed themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is...and learning ought to do from a principle of duty.' We know it was something more than that. But still, one clear lesson of Methodism is here pointed out... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists I have. JOHNSON : ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...only way to do good to the common people, and which elergymen of genius and learning ought to, do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 páginas
...He attributed the Wesleys' success to their plain, familiar way of preaching, " which," he says, " clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty." Arthur Helps tells a story of an illiterate soldier at the chapel of Lord Morpeth's castle in Ireland.... | |
 | Terence O'Rorke - 1878 - 572 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called methodists have. — JOHNSON ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...their congregations ; a practice for which they will he praised hy men of sense.' " — Croker's Boswett, p. 156. to withdraw the £4 a year he was in the... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called " Methodists " have. Johnson: " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...from a principle of duty when it is suited to their congregations—a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness... | |
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Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations... 
