 | Mark Pattison - 1889 - 460 pàgines
...of the former, says, ' I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. But when familiarity and noise claim the praise due...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions.' It is, however, the substance, and not the manner, of the classical sermons of the eighteenth century... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pàgines
...would say he made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt : I t the evil I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friend of ours said to me, " I... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 584 pàgines
...never drew as much attention as a mountebank does. ... I never treated his ministry with contempt ; I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions." ' He placed him in one of the four classes of Egotists. Johnson approved of the expulsion of the six... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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 J said to me,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pàgines
...for that. I never 376 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 377 treated Whitefield's ministry with contempt: I he favour that has been done me ;* for which I return...as I ought to make for so much kindness so little I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel, a celebrated friendof ours303said to me, "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 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 elegance, we must beat down such pretensions." After all, however, it is a difficult question how far sincere Christians should associate with the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...lady of Sir Henry Dashwood, Bart. — BOSWELL. RKV. GEORGE WHITEFIRLD. drunk to-morrow." JOHNSON : He had devoted himself to the lower classes of mankind,...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 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...praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must bear down such pretensions. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, Life by Boswell, ed. Hill, vol. in, p. 465 It... | |
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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.... 
