 ... can be very powerfully affected. What can be more ludicrous, than an orator delivering stale indignation, and fervour of a week old; turning over whole pages of violent passions, written out in German text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 9by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 556 pages
...aipired, and which neither Cicero nor Demolihenes was able to reach " Th-: prejudices of the Englifh nation have proceeded a good deal from their hatred to the French ; and becauie that country is the native soil of degree, animation, and g:;ice, ะท. certain patriotic lohdity,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 424 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind; and so affected at a preconcerted line, and page, that he...characteristics of this; so that an adventurous preacher is afraid of violating the ancient tranquillity of the pulpit ; and the audience are commonly apt to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...the ardor of his mind ; and so affected by a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed farther ? The prejudices of the English nation have...characteristics of this ; so that an adventurous preacher is afraid of violating the ancient tranquillity of the pulpit, and the audience are commonly apt to... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...text; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardor of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page that he is unable to proceed any further." 1 If a sermon be a kind of dignified conversation, then the extemporary sermon must have... | |
 | Theology - 640 pages
...German-text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes Into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed farther ? โ Sydney Smith. PREACHING IN AND TUNING OUT. SIR, โ I am accustomed to worship in a sanctuary... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1846 - 420 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line, and page, that he...and grace, a certain patriotic solidity, and loyal awkardness, have become the characteristics of this ; so that an adventurous preacher is afraid of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any further ! The prejudices of the English nation have proceeded a good deal from their hatred to the... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...his mind ; and so affected by a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed farther 1 The prejudices of the English nation have proceeded...elegance, animation, and grace, a certain patriotic stolidity and loyal awkwardness have become the characteristics of this ; so that an adventurous preacher... | |
 | Sydney Smith - British literature - 1848 - 552 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line, and page, that he is unable to proceed any further ! The prejudices of the English nation have proceeded a good deal from their hatred to the... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...text ; reading the tropes and apostrophes into which he is hurried by the ardour of his mind ; and so affected at a preconcerted line and page, that he is unable to proceed any farther ! โ Sydney Smith. VOLUMINOUS TRIFLING. Dr. Shaw, the naturalist, was one day showing to a friend... | |
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