Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected. The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Strana 18podľa Sydney Smith - 1844Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - Počet stránok 548
...the great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing ; their characteristic is decent debility. " Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading... | |
| Počet stránok 640
...is possible for a man to be at once eloquent and virtuous, the objection falls to the ground. Fulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from, speaking...stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feeling of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous than... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - Počet stránok 372
...the great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing; their characteristic is decent debility. " Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerful]^ affected. What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor... | |
| 1854 - Počet stránok 428
...dwindled from speaking to reading, — n praetiee of itself snffieient to stifle every germ of eloqnenee. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind ean be very powerfnlly affeeted. What ean be more lndierons than an orator delivering stale indignation... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - Počet stránok 780
...power of preaching well, we are giving no opinion as to whether it might or might not be remedied; hut merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text; reading... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - Počet stránok 434
...the great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing ; their characteristic is decent debility. " Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very1 powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - Počet stránok 768
...practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquenee. It is only by the fresh fcelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected....ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation and fervor of a wcek old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text; reading... | |
| William Russell - 1853 - Počet stránok 432
...insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every genn of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervor of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in goodly text ; reading... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - Počet stránok 160
...and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further." True, " it is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can be very powerfully affected." But Nature is always fresh — and he who reproduces Nature will always affect. Macready never stabbed... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - Počet stránok 154
...it would not be jnst to omit the ridicule with which it has been visited by the Rev. Sidney Smith. "It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart that mankind can bo very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation... | |
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