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«It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher»
Author: George Whitefield
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displeased, displeases, displeasing, hearer, offense, preacher, sermon
«He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.»
«Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.»
Author: Roger Bacon
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«Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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addresses, affections, captivated, captivates, captivating, eloquence, hearer, hearers, high-pitched, pitch, subduing
«All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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«But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.»
«For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: / For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.»
«For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; / (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.»
«Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.»
«But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.»
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