 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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." BOSWELL. "Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir; Dublin is only a worse capital."... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 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...during the remainder of my stay in London at this tune, is only what follows: I told him that when I objected to keeping company with a notorious infidel,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 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...knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such 1779 pretensions." 58 [An observation which Boswell derived from Langton, 1780 a friend of Johnson's.]... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 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...knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such 1779 pretensions." 58 [An observation which. Boswell derived from Langton, 1780 a friend of Johnson's.]... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 714 pàgines
...say he had made a better sermon for that. I never treated Wliitefield's ministry with contempt : I believe he did good. He had devoted himself to the...and among them he was of use. But when familiarity dud noise claim the praise due to knowledge, art, and elegance, we must beat down euch pretensions."—... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1989 - 856 pàgines
...Whitefield gloried in doing so and even received the grudging approval of Dr Johnson on that account. 'He had devoted himself to the lower classes of mankind, and among them he was of use.'29 Wesley's talent for organizing as well as inspiring the poor makes him a figure of overwhelming... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 pàgines
...made a better sermon for that. I never treated Whiteficld's ministry with contempt; I believe he d1d good. He had devoted himself to the lower classes...when familiarity and noise claim the praise due to knowl440 edge, art, and elegance, we must beat down such pretensions" (Boswell [1791] 1936, 3:409).... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 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... | |
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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.... 
