 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which ds & co. drunkennessasa crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1900 - 548 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.5 On another occasion, in 1778, when asked what were the best English sermons for style, what... | |
 | Thomas Cuming Hall - Christian sociology - 1900 - 316 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 congregation.* Johnson, Tory and High Church man as he was, had always a good word for both Wesley... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which ' I believe so ; from the great attention he bestowed...want of attention, if he died at all by that book.' debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people : but to tell... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 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 congregation ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1910 - 268 pages
...Methodists and the Evangelicals were which is the only way to do good to the common people and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from...of duty, when it is suited to their congregations " (Boswell, 1763). one in their aim at the conquest of irreligion and immorality. It must never be... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 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 de- [1730 bases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people; but... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 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 bebases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people; but to tell... | |
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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... 
