 | James Boswell - 1887 - 522 페이지
...Motives are generally unknown. We cannot trust to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons; as those, for instance, by Sallust and by Lord Clarendon3.' He would not allow much merit to Whiteficld's oratory. ' His popularity, Sir (said he,)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 페이지
...Motives are generally unknown.2 We cannot trust to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those,...in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." 1 Hor. Sat., i. 4-34.— Editor. 2 This was what old Sir Robert Walpole probably meant, when his son... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 페이지
...Motives are generally unknown. We cannot trust to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those,...Lord Clarendon." He would not allow much merit to Wbitfield's oratory. " His popularity, Sir," said he, " is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1889 - 398 페이지
...are generally unknown. We cannot trust ,- — to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those, for instance, by Sallust and by Lord Clarendon.' The opinion expressed in these remarkable words is undoubtedly the opinion entertained by average Englishmen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 페이지
...Motives are generally unknown. We cannot trust to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those,...pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." I know not from what spirit of contradiction he burst out into a violent declamation against the Corsicans,... | |
 | J. Albert Swallow - 1895 - 178 페이지
...Of Whitefield's oratory, however, Johnson spoke in very depreciating tones (1769). "His popularity", said he, "is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his...in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." 2) Dr. Johnson's opinion on the expulsion of the six students from the University of Oxford, 3) is... | |
 | 1895 - 1056 페이지
...Of Whitefield's oratory, however, Johnson spoke in very depreciating tones (1769). "His popularity", said he, "is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his...in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." 8) Dr. Johnson's opinion on the expulsion of the six students from the University of Oxford, 3) is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 80 페이지
...liberal tendencies or progressive movements. Of Whitefield's stirring eloquence he said, " His popularity is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his manner....in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." Johnson, however, outlived many of his prejudices. His hatred of the Scotch became a mere joke; and... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 580 페이지
...oratory, which David Hume said was worth travelling a score of miles to hear. ' His popularity, Sir, is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his manner....nightcap in the pulpit or were he to preach from a tree.' Boswell tells us : 'Of his fellow-collegian, the celebrated Mr. George Whitefield, he said, "Whitefield... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 페이지
...Motives are generally unknown. We cannot trust to the characters we find in history, unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those,...in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree." . . . Dr. Johnson shunned to-night any discussion of the perplexed question of fate and free will,... | |
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He would not allow much merit to Whitfield's oratory. " His popularity, Sir," said he, " is chiefly owing to the peculiarity of his manner. He would be followed by crowds were he to wear a night-cap in the pulpit, or were he to preach from a tree. 
