 | Charles John Abbey - 1878 - 606 pàgines
...than others, but by doing what was strange. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good ; he had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.' With what perverse ingenuity he defends one of the most unjustifiable of all the outrages perpetrated... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 pàgines
...would say he made a better' sermon for that, I never treated Whitfield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.''^ There waa no lack of knowledge, art, and elegance in the ministry of the establishment in Johnson's... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1872 - 496 pàgines
...Methodists, said : ' I never treated the ministry of Whitefield with contempt ; I believe he did good. But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due...knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions?1 The Methodists were, no doubt, under great obligations to Dr. Johnson for not having... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pàgines
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...remainder of my stay in London at this time is only what ' A conspicuous anachronism ; the practice of exhibiting the heads of tra1tors at Temple Bar was long... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pàgines
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...time, is only what follows : I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friend of ours said to me, " I... | |
 | John Henry Overton - 1886 - 246 pàgines
...than others, but by doing what was strange. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good ; he had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.' With what perverse ingenuity, again, he defends one of the most unjustifiable of all the outrages perpetrated... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pàgines
...he did good. He had devoted himself to the lower classes of mankind, and among them he was of use 4. But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due...time, is only what follows : I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel 5, a celebrated friend 6 of ours said to me,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pàgines
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...lower classes of mankind, and among them he was of use 4. But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pàgines
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...time, is only what follows : I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friend of our's 1 said to me,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pàgines
...would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and noise claim the praise due to knowledge, art, aud elegance, we must beat down such pretensions." What I have preserved of his conversation during... | |
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Astley to preach a sermon standing upon his head on a horse's back, he would collect a multitude to hear him ; but no wise man would say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good.... 
