Sacred Rhetoric: Or, Composition and Delivery of SermonsGould and Lincoln, 1849 - 259 Seiten |
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 115 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Seite 115 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.