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...great success attending the preaching of the Methodists, Johnson said to Boswell (1763): — "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense." 2) This view may well be compared with that of Goldsmith on the same subject in his essay on Preaching....

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...clergyman.'4 A few years later, in 1763, he said that the success of the Methodists in preaching was owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and...practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.5 On another occasion, in 1778, when asked what were the best English sermons for style, what...

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...distant time. When Boswell spoke of the great success of those called Methodists, Johnson replied, " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar way." When Boswell told him that he had been to a Quaker meeting, and heard a woman preach, he replied,...

...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 will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness...

...upon their hearts.'1 And on another occasion, referring to the success of the Methodist preachers, he said, 'it is owing to their expressing themselves...a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way 1 Boswell, under the year 1770. to do good to the common people.'1 John Wesley himself said to one...