 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - Počet stránok 464
...are giving no opinion as to whether it might, or might not, be remedied ; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text; reading... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - Počet stránok 424
...are giving no opinion as to whether it might, or might not, be remedied; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - Počet stránok 530
...are giving no opinion as to whether it might, or might not, be remedied ; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heai't, that mankind can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - Počet stránok 420
...are giving no opinion as to whether it might, or might not be remedied ; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in goodly text ;... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - Počet stránok 524
...are giving no opinion as to whether it might, or might not, be remedied ; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...ludicrous than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old ; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...we are giving no opinion as to whether it might or might not be remedied; but merely stating a fact. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking...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.... | |
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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. What can be more ludicrous,... 
