 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 334 pages
...success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...it it by no means inconsistent with his JOH NSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...the generous exertions of goodness, by an unworthy " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist... | |
 | William Gresley - Preaching - 1840 - 414 pages
...Johnson : " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain familiar manner, which is the way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...activity end it it by no means inconsistent with his . " Sir, it is owing to their expresBng themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to he common people, and which clergymen of gerrius and learning ought to do from a jrinciple of duty,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...renewed in his faculties, and constrained by the " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...But it Is not, therefore, fair to decry it when genuine. The principal argument, in reason and good which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genim and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ;... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...impression upon their hearts." He thought the adoption of a plain and familiar style, the only way of doing good to the common people, and which " clergymen of...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations : a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense." And thus,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...those called Methodists have." Johnson answered : — " 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 peo pie, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregation ; a practice, for which they wiJl be praised by men of sense. To insist... | |
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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;... 
