The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 16T. Boys, 1826 - Anecdotes |
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... once preaching upon Pilate's question , " What is truth ? " He told the audience that he had at last , after many searches , found it out , and holding forth a New Testa- ment , said , " Here it is , my friends ; " but adde sorrowfully ...
... once preaching upon Pilate's question , " What is truth ? " He told the audience that he had at last , after many searches , found it out , and holding forth a New Testa- ment , said , " Here it is , my friends ; " but adde sorrowfully ...
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... once on a visit to him , laboured to persuade him to trust to his excellent memory , and to give up the habit of reading . Dr. Sanderson promised to make the experiment ; and as he went to church on the Sunday following , put into Dr ...
... once on a visit to him , laboured to persuade him to trust to his excellent memory , and to give up the habit of reading . Dr. Sanderson promised to make the experiment ; and as he went to church on the Sunday following , put into Dr ...
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... once stopped short in the middle of a sermon from defect of memory ; and the same thing happened through excess of apprehension , to two other preachers , whom Massilon went in dif- ferent parts of the same day to hear . HOUR - GLASSES ...
... once stopped short in the middle of a sermon from defect of memory ; and the same thing happened through excess of apprehension , to two other preachers , whom Massilon went in dif- ferent parts of the same day to hear . HOUR - GLASSES ...
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... once declaiming with great vehemence against the sin of drunkenness . Having exhausted the usual time , he turned the hour - glass , and said , " Brethren , I have somewhat more to say on the nature and consequences of drunkenness , so ...
... once declaiming with great vehemence against the sin of drunkenness . Having exhausted the usual time , he turned the hour - glass , and said , " Brethren , I have somewhat more to say on the nature and consequences of drunkenness , so ...
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... once , as a priest went in the night with God's body to a sick man , the spirit met him , and told him who he was , and why he walked ; and prayed the priest to tell his wife to make amends to the abbot , that he might absolve him ; for ...
... once , as a priest went in the night with God's body to a sick man , the spirit met him , and told him who he was , and why he walked ; and prayed the priest to tell his wife to make amends to the abbot , that he might absolve him ; for ...
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Page 93 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 3 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 22 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Page 156 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest...
Page 55 - My lord, your father would have gone further :" to which the duke answered, " Your majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so far.
Page 12 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 60 - There prevailed in those days an indecent custom : when the preacher touched any favourite topic in a manner that delighted his audience, their approbation was expressed by a loud hum, continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so loudly and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and rubbed his face with his handkerchief. When Sprat preached, he likewise was honoured with the like animating hum ; but he stretched out his hand to the congregation,...
Page 4 - Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Page 141 - When I preach I sink myself deeply down, I regard neither doctors nor masters, of which there are . in the church above forty. But I have an eye to the multitude of young people, children, and servants, of which there are more than two thousand.
Page 106 - I beseech you, brethren," he wrote, "by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.