 M clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic, throwing more pathos into appeals, and copying God in His works by adding the ornamental to the useful. The longer I have lived and composed, I have acted more and more according to the saying of...  Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie, D.D. - Page 139by Thomas Guthrie, David Kelley Guthrie - 1874Full view - About this book
 | 1874 - 818 pages
...page on my manuscript opposite a written one, cutting out dry bits, giving point to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic,...does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor. " To this, with my style of delivery, and self-possession, and command and flexibility of voice,... | |
 | 1874 - 1198 pages
...one, cutting out dry bits, giving point to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parte more graphic, throwing more pathos into appeals, and copying God in His works by adding the ernamental to the useful. The longer I have lived and composed, I have acted more and more according... | |
 | Samuel McAll - 1875 - 144 pages
...my manuscript opposite a written one — cutting out dry bits, giving point to dull ones — mak1ng clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic...the useful. The longer I have lived and composed, 86 "DELIVERY!' I have acted more and more on the saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that God does not give... | |
 | Samuel McAll - 1875 - 144 pages
...giving point to dull ones—making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic—throwing more pathos into appeals, and copying God in His works...have lived and composed, I have acted more and more on the saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that God does not give excellence to man but as the reward of... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...He laboured at his sermons in mannscript, " cutting out dry bita, giving point to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic,...His works by adding the ornamental to the useful." It was always a wonder to Hugh Miller how a minister could come out Sunday after Sunday with even one... | |
 | 1879 - 350 pages
...page on my manuscript opposite a written one, cutting out dry bits, giving points to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic,...have lived and composed, I have acted more and more accord1ng to the sayings of Sir Joshua Reynolds in his' Lectures on Painting,' that God does not give... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1879 - 240 pages
...his popularity, as a preacher, unabated for forty years. Near the close of his life he wrote : — " The longer I have lived and composed, I have acted...more and more according to the saying of Sir Joshua Eeynolds in his ' Lectures on Painting,' that God does not give excellence to men but as the reward... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1881 - 244 pages
...He laboured at his sermons in manuscript, ' cutting out dry bits, giving point to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic,...His works by adding the ornamental to the useful.' It was always a wonder to Hugh Miller how a minister could come out Sunday after Sunday with even one... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1887 - 300 pages
...corrections consisted, as he has told us, in "cutting out dry bits, giving point to dull ones, making clear any obscurity, and narrative parts more graphic...works by adding the ornamental to the useful." The substance of the sermons, as we have said, was mainly pictorial. In his early preaching days at Arbirlot... | |
 | 1916 - 406 pages
...and character of those parts which had made the deepest impression, that I might cultivate it. "... The longer I have lived and composed I have acted...saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his lectures on ' Paintings,' that God does not give excellencies to men but as the reward of labor.' LEARN BY HEART.... | |
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