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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: talent for a head like a lexicon or an index of philosophical speculations ? It is remarkable that there are so few eloquent preachers, rarely more than one or two in an age. Yet there is much study preparatory to the pulpit, and under zealous professors, with frequent indications of latent genius. To what shall we attribute this? As Cicero does, to the wonderful difficulty and extent of eloquence? Or, to the little, or ill-directed pains taken to accomplish ourselves in this part of our sacred duty? It is, indeed, true, that to be a perfect orator, one should possess many natural advantages and acquired arts, an acquaintance with every science, but especially with history and human nature, together with the graceful courtesy of a gentleman and the dignity of honest aims; yet there is no good reason why many, who now fail miserably, might not have won their way to some degree of excellence if not to perfection. If what Plutarch tells us of the oft-cited example of Demosthenes be true, an orator may be made from most unpromising material, if he have but zeal to excel, and good sense to guide him in the endeavour. How small a portion of time is given in our theological halls to this most useful accomplishment, you are but too well aware; and often after we enter upon the actual exercise of our office, the multiplicity of duties laid upon the minister by the su- perscriptural inventions of modern times, leaves us little time to plan and write our sermons, much less to consider how they should be delivered. Notwithstanding all, by a due industry a habit of happy rhetoric might be acquired, which would come readily into use at the moment it is needed. It is most unworthy a scholar, far more of a Christian, and an advocate of divine truth, to allow difficulty of any kind to stand in ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217164993 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217164994 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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