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A preacher is then obliged to choose , either never to attack such mistakes as the
multitude think fit to authorize , or to renounce the advantages , which he may
promise himself , if he adapt his subjects to the taste of his auditors , and touch ...
A preacher is then obliged to choose , either never to attack such mistakes as the
multitude think fit to authorize , or to renounce the advantages , which he may
promise himself , if he adapt his subjects to the taste of his auditors , and touch ...
Page 47
THERE never was a disposition more odious , 1 or more unjust than that of the
profane Jews , of whom Jeremiah speaks in the forty - fourth chapter of his
prophecies . He had addressed to them the most pressing and pathetical
exhortations to ...
THERE never was a disposition more odious , 1 or more unjust than that of the
profane Jews , of whom Jeremiah speaks in the forty - fourth chapter of his
prophecies . He had addressed to them the most pressing and pathetical
exhortations to ...
Page 104
... as if you had never shed a tear , never put up a prayer , never made a
resolution , never appealed to heaven to attest your sincerity : the man , who
concludes from such sad events as these that the resolutions of sick and dying
people ought ...
... as if you had never shed a tear , never put up a prayer , never made a
resolution , never appealed to heaven to attest your sincerity : the man , who
concludes from such sad events as these that the resolutions of sick and dying
people ought ...
Page 125
Arrows shot at the sun never reach him . Sacrileges committed in the temples of
the deity , by breaking in pieces the symbols , and by subyerting the edifices ,
never affect him . What am I saying , the gods themselves may be buried in the
ruins ...
Arrows shot at the sun never reach him . Sacrileges committed in the temples of
the deity , by breaking in pieces the symbols , and by subyerting the edifices ,
never affect him . What am I saying , the gods themselves may be buried in the
ruins ...
Page 190
First they must never be excited in the body without the direction of the will and
the reason . Secondly they must always be proportional , I mean , the emotion of
fear , for example , must never be except in sight of objects capable of hurting us
...
First they must never be excited in the body without the direction of the will and
the reason . Secondly they must always be proportional , I mean , the emotion of
fear , for example , must never be except in sight of objects capable of hurting us
...
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 5 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2008 |
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