 Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations...  The Table Talk of John Selden - Sida 59efter John Selden - 1818 - 180 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 sidor
...adaptability, of 1 When Boswell spoke of the great success of the Methodists, Johnson said : "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner. the doctrines which were insisted upon. In ceaseless variety of form, and with boundless modes of illustration,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 sidor
...talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Metho- [1720 dists have. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it de- [1730 bases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people; but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 sidor
...I talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...To insist against drunkenness as a crime because it bebases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people; but to tell... | |
 | 1871 - 818 sidor
...Boswell says " was himself in a dignified manner a Methodist," speaking of their success, said: " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...the only way to do good to the common people." And " polished periods and glittering sentences " fly over their heads, " without any impression on their... | |
 | Ignatius Sancho - 1998 - 388 sidor
...conversation with Johnson that helps explain the appeal of Methodism to the lower classes: "JOHNSON. 'Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...to their congregations; a practice, for which they would be praised by men of sense.' " As the satiric print Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism (London,... | |
 | Phillis Wheatley - 2001 - 280 sidor
...conversation with Johnson that helps explain the appeal of Methodism to the lower classes: "JOHNSON. 'Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain...to their congregations; a practice, for which they would be praised by men of sense.' " As the satiric print Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism (London,... | |
 | Samuel J. Rogal - 2002 - 186 sidor
...those called Methodists have," noted James Boswell on 30 July 1763. "Sir," responded Samuel Johnson, "it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar Wesley and Money 33 manner, which is the only way to do good to the conmon people, and of which clergymen... | |
 | Stephen Tomkins - 2003 - 214 sidor
...to Johnson's sense of propriety, but he applauded their selfless labour and attributed their success 'to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...is the only way to do good to the common people'. Johnson now poured his prejudice against the American brethren - whom he had always considered 'a race... | |
 | John Keane - 2003 - 670 sidor
...with the remarkable ability of the Methodist preachers to talk convincingly to lower-class audiences "in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people."34 Plain-talking public discourse that avoided the airs and graces of the High Church and instead... | |
 | 1856 - 840 sidor
...called Methodists hare obtained. Johnson answered, "Sir, it is owing to their expressing thnnst'lvcs in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...of duty, when it is suited to their congregations — for \vliicli they will lie praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness as debasing reason,... | |
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