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... and delivery , to the general taste of those who are to be its auditors . One of the chief caufes of the fuccefs which Methodist and other irregu- lar lar preachers have met with among the lower claffes , OF THE PULPIT . 17.
... and delivery , to the general taste of those who are to be its auditors . One of the chief caufes of the fuccefs which Methodist and other irregu- lar lar preachers have met with among the lower claffes , OF THE PULPIT . 17.
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... caufes which tend to the deftruction of a nation , vary according to the nature of its exifting govern- A democracy is corrupted not only by luxury and its concomitant inequality of conditions , but by a fpirit of extreme equality , by ...
... caufes which tend to the deftruction of a nation , vary according to the nature of its exifting govern- A democracy is corrupted not only by luxury and its concomitant inequality of conditions , but by a fpirit of extreme equality , by ...
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... caufes of this may be worth while developing to do which , to gether with an attempt at delivering a few precepts by which this fpecies of compofi- tion may be fomewhat better executed , is my purpose in the following pages . The ...
... caufes of this may be worth while developing to do which , to gether with an attempt at delivering a few precepts by which this fpecies of compofi- tion may be fomewhat better executed , is my purpose in the following pages . The ...
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... caufes must be investi- gated ; nor is the task difficult . As long as we confider that the employment of novel - writing , defpifed by thofe men of brilliant imagination and found judgment , who alone are adequate to it , has found ...
... caufes must be investi- gated ; nor is the task difficult . As long as we confider that the employment of novel - writing , defpifed by thofe men of brilliant imagination and found judgment , who alone are adequate to it , has found ...
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... caufes above recited , he will have the contagion of example , the relaxation of morals , to con- tend with . Independent of the self - fatis- faction and utility of this propriety of conduct , it will materially ferve him in the public ...
... caufes above recited , he will have the contagion of example , the relaxation of morals , to con- tend with . Independent of the self - fatis- faction and utility of this propriety of conduct , it will materially ferve him in the public ...
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