Sacred Rhetoric: Or, Composition and Delivery of SermonsGould and Lincoln, 1849 - 259 páginas |
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Página 59 - Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius; they are fetters only to men of no genius...
Página 136 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Página 247 - In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer.
Página 113 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Página 115 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Página 115 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.