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" one of them in the pulpit. I could heartily wish/ says the Spectator, ' that some of our country clergy would follow ' this example ; and instead of wasting their spirits in laborious ' compositions of their own, would endeavour after a handsome ' elocution... "
Christian Remembrancer: Or, The Churchman's Biblical, Ecclesiastical ... - Page 521
1854
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...pleasure Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Saunderson, * Dr. William Fleetwood. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by great masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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Select British Classics, Volume 12

1803 - 412 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish thp.t more of our country -clergy would follow this example;...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 466 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and,...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1806 - 854 pages
...is adJtd; " I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy wmild follow this example, anil, instead of wasting their spirits in laborious compositions of their own, would endeavour alter a handsome elocution, and all those other talents that ;\re proper to enforce what has been penned...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by great masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...have been recommending, and concludes with these observations : ' I could heartily wish, that more of our country clergy would follow this example ;...those other talents that are proper, to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The British Essayists, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 pages
...like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a grac'èful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by great. masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36

British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example; and...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by great masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

1822 - 788 pages
...in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us : and I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example ;...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by greater masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 684 pages
...is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example ;...those other talents that are proper to enforce what has been penned by great masters. This would not only be more easy to themselves, but more edifying...
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