| 1879 - 446 pages
...practical divinity."—Works, vol. iii. 28-30. Mr. Addison says that if more of the country clergy, instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would take what has been written by the great masters, it would be more easy for themselves, and more edifying... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and,...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. 105 8. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and,...spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution and all those other talents that are proper to enforce what has... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and,...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this* example,...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
| William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. K-. 8. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and,...spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavor after a handsome elocution and all those other talents that are proper to enforce what has... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example, and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1883 - 834 pages
...little training in sermon-making, the volume of standard sermons, interleaved by him from time to time their own, would endeavour after a handsome elocution...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters." A less wholesale second-hand business, and one with which some... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...is like the Composition of a Poet in the Mouth of a graceful Actor. I could heartily wish that more of our Country Clergy would follow this Example ; and instead of wasting their Spirit in laborious Compositions of their own, would endeavour after a handsome Elocution, and all... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. 10. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying... | |
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