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The Increase, Influence, and Stability of Unestablished Religion: No Cause ... - Page 21
by Jacob Stanley - 1813 - 63 pages
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Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table Talk

James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of...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...
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Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table Talk

James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 172 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 ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Life. Vicar of Wakefield. Essays. Letters

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 576 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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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 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...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...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 356 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 Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, debases reason, the noblest...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 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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Methodism in the Light of the English Literature of the Last Century

J. Albert Swallow - English literature - 1895 - 178 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...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense." 2) This view may well be compared with that of Goldsmith on the same subject in his essay on Preaching....
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Münchener beiträge zur Romanischen und Englischen philologie, Volumes 9-15

English literature - 1895 - 1056 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manlier, 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." a) This view may well be compared witli that of Goldsmith on the same subject in his essay on Preaching....
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