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" ... in the course of his studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him, could trace him in his sermons to the book which he had last been reading, or the subject which had recently taken his attention. But the salient points... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 199
1824
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 15

England - 1824 - 758 pages
...trace him in his sermons 8E to the book which he had last been read- It is my agonizing Lord ! tag, or the subject which had recently taken his attention....spring is in full play. " The theatrical talent which be displayed in boyhood, manifested itself strongly in his oratory. When he was about to preach, whether...
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The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 2

Robert Southey - Evangelists - 1820 - 642 pages
...studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him could trace him in his sermons to the book which he had last been reading, or the...displayed in boyhood manifested itself strongly in bis oratory. When he was about to preach, whether it was from a pulpit, or a table in the streets,...
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The Georgian Era: The royal family. The pretenders and their adherents ...

Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...which, if successful, he ever afterwards retained. " The salient points of his oratory," says Southey, "were not prepared passages — they were bursts of...jets from a Geyser when the spring is in full play." While thus attentive to the amelioration of his discourses in matter, he seems to have materially profited...
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The Day

1832 - 496 pages
...as it seemed to enter the heart which it pierced, and to heal as with balm. ••«••»•«• The theatrical talent which he displayed in boyhood manifested itself strongly in his oratory. When be was about to preach, whether it was from a pulpit, or a table in the streets, or a rising ground,...
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The Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine, Volume 3

Theology - 1837 - 588 pages
...studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him could trace him in his sermons to the book which he had last been reading, or the...were not prepared passages, — they were bursts of passions like jets from a Geyser, when the spring is in full play. "The theatrical talent which he...
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Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield

John Gillies - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 728 pages
...studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him, could trace him in his sermons to the book which he had last been reading, or the...boyhood, manifested itself strongly in his oratory. When lie was about to preach, whether it was from a pulpit, or a table in the streets, or a rising ground,...
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The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A.

Robert Philip - Evangelical Revival - 1838 - 678 pages
...studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him could trace him, in his sermons, to the book which he had last been reading, or the...the salient points of his oratory were not prepared passages—they were bursts of passion, like jets of a GEYSER, when the spring is in full play." Southey's...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 3; Volume 67

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...studies, or fresh from the feeling of the moment. They who lived with him could trace him, in his sermons, to the book which he had last been reading, or the...subject which had recently taken his attention. But the radiant points of his oratory were not prepared passages — they were bursts of passion, like jets...
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Ministerial records; or, Brief accounts of the great progress of religion ...

Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 pages
...those that were delivered in quite an extemporaneous manner. It might be said of him as of Whitfield, " The salient points of his oratory were not prepared passages ; they were bursts of passion, like the jets of Geyser, when the spring is in full play." Southey. Many that saw these jets of the Langan...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 3

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...for the following statement of Southey : " They who lived with him could trace him, in his sermons, to the book which he had last been reading, or the...jets from a GEYSER, when the spring is in full play." Yes; but what unwearied pains, what earnest and varied study beforehand is requisite, in order that...
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