 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
...He attributed the Wesleys' success to their plain, familiar way of preaching, " which," he says, " clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty." Arthur Helps tells a story of an illiterate soldier at the chapel of Lord Morpeth's castle in Ireland.... | |
 | Terence O'Rorke - Ballysadare (Ireland : Parish) - 1878 - 572 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...their congregations ; a practice for which they will he praised hy men of sense.' " — Croker's Boswett, p. 156. to withdraw the £4 a year he was in the... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 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...To 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... | |
 | Preaching - 1879 - 110 pages
...themselves in a plain, familiar manner, which is the 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 congregation. — Johnson. Avoid all exotic phrases, scholastic terms, and forced rhetorical figures,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 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 a principle of duty when it is suited to their congregations—a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 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...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 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...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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...for which they will be praised by men of sense. To inveigh against drunkenness as a crime because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...Preaching 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...practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. When Scotch clergy give up their homely manner, religion will soon die out and decay in that country.... | |
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Sir, it is owing to their expressing 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 a principle of duty, when »it is suited to their congregations... 
