 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...generally fights best when undermost." which those called methodists have. JOHNSON, ' Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...of sense. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, becauses it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service to the common people... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...preaching, and of the great success which those called methodists l have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...only way to do good to the common people, and which 1 All who are acquainted with the history of religion, (the most important, surely,that concerns the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...fair to decry it when genuine. The principal argument in reason and good expressing T/ie Methodists. expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner,...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense1. To insist against drunkenness as a crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...preaching and of the great success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...against drunkenness as a crime because it debases Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, debases reason, the noblest faculty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...preaching and of the great success which those called Methodists have. JOHNSON. " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...To insist against drunkenness as a crime because it Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. (prayer. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. debases reason, the noblest... | |
 | J. Albert Swallow - 1895 - 178 pages
...attending the preaching of the Methodists, Johnson said to Boswell (1763): — "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense." 2) This view may well be compared with that of Goldsmith on the same subject in his essay on Preaching.... | |
 | 1895 - 1056 pages
...Boswell (1763): — "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manlier, which is the only way to do good to the common people,...practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense." a) This view may well be compared witli that of Goldsmith on the same subject in his essay on Preaching.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists*have. JOHNSON : " Sir, it is owing to drunkennessasa crime, because it debases reason, the noblest faculty of man, would be of no service... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1900 - 548 pages
...clergyman.'4 A few years later, in 1763, he said that the success of the Methodists in preaching was owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.5 On another occasion, in 1778, when asked what were the best English sermons for style, what... | |
 | Thomas Cuming Hall - 1900 - 316 pages
...and the success "which those called Methodists have" Dr. Samuel Johnson said: " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregation.* Johnson, Tory and High Church man as he was, had always a good word for both Wesley... | |
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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... 
