 | Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...themfelves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is fuited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praifed by men of fenfe. To infift... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...because I never yet did hear that any one person called himself a Methodist.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 1 19. principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations...insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people : but to tell... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...called himself a Methodist.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 1 19. principle 532 Greenwich hospital. [AD 1763. principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense1. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...1789,^. II. -, and familiar manner, Which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congrega- • tions ; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense. To, insist against... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 pages
...plain and familiar manner, which, he thought, the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited 7 to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist, says... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from...insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases Reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people; but to tell... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from...insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases reason, the * All who are acquainted with the history of religion, (the most important, surely,... | |
 | James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...shall call in to my aid is Dr. Johnson. His great biographer speaking one day of the preaching and success of the Methodists, the Dr. said, "Sir, it...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it i& suited to their congregations; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genins and learning ought todo from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their...praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness asa crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do. good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from...insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases Reason, the noblest faculty of man", would be of no service to the common people; but to tell... | |
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