 | 1879 - 110 páginas
...Boswell. — Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain, familiar manner, which is the way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen...from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregation. — Johnson. Avoid all exotic phrases, scholastic terms, and forced rhetorical figures,... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1879 - 262 páginas
...preaching and of the success which those called Methodists have," writes Boswell. '-Johnson replied, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...is the only way to do good to the common people.' " (6) For models of simplicity, study the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon Paley,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 páginas
...Olympic boxer, generally fights best when undermost." which those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 páginas
...Olympic boxer, generally fights best when undermost." which those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...Boswell 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...for which they will be praised by men of sense. To inveigh against drunkenness as a crime because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 páginas
...oppressed. — Merit "London." Line 176. Success of It is owing to them expressing themselves Preaching in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. When Scotch clergy give up their homely manner, religion will soon die out and decay in that country.... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 páginas
...•"TALKING of preaching, and of the great success of John Wesley and the Methodists, he said, " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...and learning ought to do from a principle of duty ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 páginas
...Olympic boxer, generally fights best when undermost." which those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 páginas
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called methodists l have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...only way to do good to the common people, and which 1 All who are acquainted with the history of religion, (the most important, surely,that concerns the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 páginas
...fair to decry it when genuine. The principal argument in reason and good expressing T/ie Methodists. expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner,...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense1. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of... | |
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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... 
