 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 sayfa
...the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study: but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar...citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the 4th chapter to the Philippians, " Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 sayfa
...the occasion 1 bad for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study: but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of *the...good citizens. At length he took for his text that Terse of the fourth chapter to the Phillippians, " Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | 1818 - 588 sayfa
...the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar...enforced; their aim seeming to be rather to make us firesbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the 4th chapter to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 sayfa
...the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study : but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar...single moral principle was inculcated or enforced; then* aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 sayfa
...the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure i" my course of study: but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar...unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculeated or enforced ; their aim sjceming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 sayfa
...study; but his discourses were either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines ot our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting,...for his text that verse of the fourth chapter to the Phillipians, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, jwt, pure, lovely, or of good... | |
 | Presbyterian Historical Society of America (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Richard Webster - 1857 - 726 sayfa
...the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar...than good citizens. At length he took for his text, Phil. iv. 8:—' Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, or of good... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 684 sayfa
...leisure in my course of study. But his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all...than good citizens. At length, he took for his text Phil. iv. 8. " Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, &c.;" and I imagined, in a sermon on... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 672 sayfa
...of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and uncdifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated...Presbyterians than good citizens. At length, he took for bis text Phil. iv. 8. " Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, &c. ;" and I imagined, in a... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 666 sayfa
...leisure in my course of study. But his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and nnedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, — their aim seeming to... | |
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I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses... 
