 This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 125edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; and when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart, and never pretends to show the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...: he never attempts your passions, until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form, are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he has convinced... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 pages
...: he never attempts your passions, until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form, are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he has convinced... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 pages
...: he never' attempts your passions, until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form, are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he has convinced... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1884 - 440 pages
...; he never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason ; all the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses...in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head he very soon wins your heart, and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 442 pages
...; he never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason ; all the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses...in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head he very soon wins your heart, and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...; he never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason ; all the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses...in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head he very soon wins your heart, and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Cathedrals - 1886 - 660 pages
...; he never attempts your passions, until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed, before he uses the least vehemence hi his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends... | |
 | English essays - 1888 - 488 pages
...skill: he never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses...his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart; and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he hath convinced... | |
 | English essays - 1888 - 498 pages
...dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he hath convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of our clergymen be thus careful to... | |
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