Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit EloquenceW. Wells and T. B. Wait & Company, 1810 - 333 pages Lectures composed for the students of divinity in Marischal college and first delivered in 1772 and 1773. |
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... speakers , even when their language and style are perfectly familiar and perspicuous to their hearers , find considerable difficulty to command an at- tentive hearing for half an hour , especially to matters of speculation ; they have ...
... speakers , even when their language and style are perfectly familiar and perspicuous to their hearers , find considerable difficulty to command an at- tentive hearing for half an hour , especially to matters of speculation ; they have ...
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... speaker , is , though not so much attended to as it deserves , of considerable consequence . This we are warranted to affirm , whatever he intends to make the scene of his public appearances , whether it be the senate , the bar , or the ...
... speaker , is , though not so much attended to as it deserves , of considerable consequence . This we are warranted to affirm , whatever he intends to make the scene of his public appearances , whether it be the senate , the bar , or the ...
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... speaker whose performance falls under his consider- ation , in order that he may discover whether he be a genuine son of the party . For this purpose , he is apt to scrutinize every word and expression , though in itself the most ...
... speaker whose performance falls under his consider- ation , in order that he may discover whether he be a genuine son of the party . For this purpose , he is apt to scrutinize every word and expression , though in itself the most ...
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... speaker ; and that , both in his addresses to God on the part of the people in worship , and his addresses to the people on the part of God in preaching . Of the im- portance of this last part of the character , as a public teacher , no ...
... speaker ; and that , both in his addresses to God on the part of the people in worship , and his addresses to the people on the part of God in preaching . Of the im- portance of this last part of the character , as a public teacher , no ...
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... speaker's art by pleas- ing the car and amusing the fancy of the hearers , but by no means calculated either to inform their under- standings or to engage their hearts . Perhaps those people will be surprised , when I tell them , that ...
... speaker's art by pleas- ing the car and amusing the fancy of the hearers , but by no means calculated either to inform their under- standings or to engage their hearts . Perhaps those people will be surprised , when I tell them , that ...
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