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... English pulpit is not the power it ought to be . R. We seem to fail in the preliminary condition of arresting and maintaining the attention . A preacher's doctrine may be excellent , and his advice admirable , but if he is not listened ...
... English pulpit is not the power it ought to be . R. We seem to fail in the preliminary condition of arresting and maintaining the attention . A preacher's doctrine may be excellent , and his advice admirable , but if he is not listened ...
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... English people for the Bible should be dealt with with the utmost tender- ness . By all means let the clergy continue to take their texts from that venerable volume , for which I have really great respect , and extract 48 COLLOQUIES ON ...
... English people for the Bible should be dealt with with the utmost tender- ness . By all means let the clergy continue to take their texts from that venerable volume , for which I have really great respect , and extract 48 COLLOQUIES ON ...
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... put me off with a variety of other matters , but I pro- test against being called upon to exchange my heritage as an English churchman for any such grotesque substitutes . God forbid that when I ask 56 COLLOQUIES ON PREACHING.
... put me off with a variety of other matters , but I pro- test against being called upon to exchange my heritage as an English churchman for any such grotesque substitutes . God forbid that when I ask 56 COLLOQUIES ON PREACHING.
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... English sailor . Kate . Well , Laplander , or English sailor , or whatever he was , he was just close to the bear , when Eva . You are missing out the best part of the story . Before he started , his grandmother had THE YOUNG LADIES 77.
... English sailor . Kate . Well , Laplander , or English sailor , or whatever he was , he was just close to the bear , when Eva . You are missing out the best part of the story . Before he started , his grandmother had THE YOUNG LADIES 77.
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... doing so perhaps never occurred to me . I treated English composi- tion with the lofty indifference of youths absorbed in classics and mathematics . I shirked public recitations , just because I hap- pened to 100 COLLOQUIES ON PREACHING.
... doing so perhaps never occurred to me . I treated English composi- tion with the lofty indifference of youths absorbed in classics and mathematics . I shirked public recitations , just because I hap- pened to 100 COLLOQUIES ON PREACHING.
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