 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...Merit "London." Line 176. Success of It is owing to them expressing themselves Preaching in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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. When Scotch... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 pages
...those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pages
...those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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 - 1884 - 742 pages
...duties flow more or less from this principle. And though they their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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 Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...John Wesley and the Methodists, he said, " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...and learning ought to do from a principle of duty ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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 - 1885 - 490 pages
...those called methodists l have. JOHNSON. " 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 1 All who are acquainted with the history of religion, (the most important, surely,that concerns the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...principal argument in reason and good expressing T/ie Methodists. expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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 sense1. To insist... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 576 pages
...The principal argument in reason and good expressing Aetat. 94.] 459 expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...those called Methodists have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good...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... | |
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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;... 
