The Preacher and the King: Or, Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV : Being an Account of the Pulpit Eloquence of that Distinguished EraGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 338 páginas |
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... readers of almost every description . - Puritan Recorder . A very delightful book . It is full of interest , and ... reader with animated conversations between some of the most famous preachers and philosophers of the Augustan age of ...
... readers of almost every description . - Puritan Recorder . A very delightful book . It is full of interest , and ... reader with animated conversations between some of the most famous preachers and philosophers of the Augustan age of ...
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... reader to his will . French literature , as is well known , is of the poorest in productions that number moral purity among their merits . French Protestants owe , therefore , a deep debt of gratitude to an author who has invested the ...
... reader to his will . French literature , as is well known , is of the poorest in productions that number moral purity among their merits . French Protestants owe , therefore , a deep debt of gratitude to an author who has invested the ...
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... readers which it deserves , the other will be laid before them in due time . The " History of the Council of Trent , " by the same author , is a work of a different kind but of great merit , as a succinct narrative of the essential ...
... readers which it deserves , the other will be laid before them in due time . The " History of the Council of Trent , " by the same author , is a work of a different kind but of great merit , as a succinct narrative of the essential ...
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... reader a high opinion of the author's discrimination of char- acter , and of his perception of the true uses of the sacred office . If the agitations of Bourdaloue at the prospect of speaking directly to the conscience of the King , be ...
... reader a high opinion of the author's discrimination of char- acter , and of his perception of the true uses of the sacred office . If the agitations of Bourdaloue at the prospect of speaking directly to the conscience of the King , be ...
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... reader , he cannot sup- press this fact of a gross and almost inexplicable contra- diction between the preacher's principles and his failure to apply them . It cannot be denied that he lauds in- stead of smiting the image of pride and ...
... reader , he cannot sup- press this fact of a gross and almost inexplicable contra- diction between the preacher's principles and his failure to apply them . It cannot be denied that he lauds in- stead of smiting the image of pride and ...
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