Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of Knowledge, and to Education Generally : to which is Appended A Topical Course of Theological StudyCarlton & Porter, 1847 - 320 pages |
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abstrac acquired acquisition advantage attained attention bodily chap Christ Christian minister Cicero Clarke's Christian Theol course cultivation delivery Demosthenes Dick's Theol discourse divine doctrine Dugald Stewart Dwight's Theol effect effort elocution eloquence emotion energy essential excellence excitement exer exercise exertion expression extempo extemporaneous faculties feelings genius give habits hearers heart ideas imagination important impression improvement Increase Mather Insts intel intellectual character intellectual power judgment Julius Cæsar knowledge labor language learning limer lonius memory ment mental discipline Metho Methodist Episcopal Pulpit moral natural never object observation orator Paley's passions philosophical possess practical preach preacher principles profound pursuits quæ Quintilian quired racter reading reason reference remarks sacred says Scriptures SECTION sentiments soul speak speaker spirit student style success temperament theology things thou thought tion true truth vigor voice Watson's Expos Watson's Theol well-disciplined mind Wesley's Sermons words writing
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Page 259 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 222 - And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 106 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Page 108 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 213 - In a word, to feel your subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence, properly so called, which I can offer.
Page 259 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Page 80 - Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry ; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. It is true, I travel four or five thousand miles in a year.
Page 266 - On the other hand, a man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flow of ideas, because the slighter relations, making no figure in his mind, have no power to introduce ideas. And hence it is, that accurate judgment is not friendly to declamation or copious eloquence. This reasoning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted observation, That a great or comprehensive memory is seldom connected with a good judgment.
Page 106 - ... the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling which he could spare, to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the grand one.
Page 106 - It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.