Preaching Without Notes: A Series of LecturesHodder & Stoughton, 1875 - 233 pages |
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... I had no sort of fear of the congrega- tion , which was entirely made up of strangers to me ; and I found as I went on , in the treat- raent of the subject with which I had made myself previously familiar , that the mind worked with a.
... I had no sort of fear of the congrega- tion , which was entirely made up of strangers to me ; and I found as I went on , in the treat- raent of the subject with which I had made myself previously familiar , that the mind worked with a.
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... tion so keen as that , or another failure so com- plete . However , after a time , the old feeling revived , and it seemed a shame to give it up so . I always preached my weekly lectures without notes , or with only brief ones ; and ...
... tion so keen as that , or another failure so com- plete . However , after a time , the old feeling revived , and it seemed a shame to give it up so . I always preached my weekly lectures without notes , or with only brief ones ; and ...
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... tion on your subjects is needful , too , to your own mind , to discipline , widen , invigorate that , and make it fit to master themes , and speak to men . Whoever has thoroughly mastered one subject , will thereby be fitted to grapple ...
... tion on your subjects is needful , too , to your own mind , to discipline , widen , invigorate that , and make it fit to master themes , and speak to men . Whoever has thoroughly mastered one subject , will thereby be fitted to grapple ...
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... tion ; but the smile that rippled round the room , if not quite as loud as this of yours , was quite as instant and universal . Any man may be pardoned for not desiring a breast - work like that , between him and the people . But if one ...
... tion ; but the smile that rippled round the room , if not quite as loud as this of yours , was quite as instant and universal . Any man may be pardoned for not desiring a breast - work like that , between him and the people . But if one ...
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... tion . It may not be so with some other faculties . The fancy , for instance , may sometimes act most rapidly and brilliantly , in connection with morbid physical conditions ; as is shown in not a few poets and artists , perhaps in some ...
... tion . It may not be so with some other faculties . The fancy , for instance , may sometimes act most rapidly and brilliantly , in connection with morbid physical conditions ; as is shown in not a few poets and artists , perhaps in some ...
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Page 212 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 211 - English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Page 221 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 211 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Page 230 - And solemn before us, Veiled, the dark Portal ; Goal of all mortal : — Stars silent rest o'er us, Graves under us silent ! While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error ; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages : " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless.
Page 229 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 230 - Brother, thou art a Man, I think ; thou art not a mere building Beaver, or two-legged Cotton-Spider ; thou hast verily a Soul in thee, asphyxied or otherwise ! Sooty Manchester, — it too is built on the infinite Abysses ; overspanned by the skyey Firmaments ; and there is birth in it, and death in it; — and it is every whit as wonderful, as fearful, unimaginable, as the oldest Salem or Prophetic City.
Page 225 - Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth ; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then he can be trusted...
Page 229 - The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
Page 227 - Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts. It is like the sash of a window ; a heavy sash will obscure the light. The object is to have as little sash as will hold the lights, that we may not think of the frame, but have the most light.