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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. I. JAMES HAMILTON. Our previous walks through the gallery of modern preachers have suggested a variety of types; for the preacher, as we have seen, is not to be resolved in one character. We have already remarked upon many who had little claim to those attributes which are popularly called oratory and eloquence, and who yet were great preachers; to these we must add the name of the beautiful, most admirable, amiable, and accomplished man, the subject of this paper. Among modern preachers there are some particulars in which Dr. Hamilton seems to stand quite alone. He was a great master in the art of turning everything to account in and for the pulpit; his sermons often remind us of the account given in the interesting life, by William Arnor, . of his expedient to retain the results of his manifold reading. He left behind him a set of volumes entitled Bibline, or Book Essence. His sermons abounded in Bibline; everything was pressed into use, especially from his favourite worlds of biography and natural historynatural history, perhaps, especially; even so much that sometimes ordinary hearers became impatient We remember one of these, a fellow-countryman of James Hamilton's too, who apologized for seeking the more level ministration of William Brock, saying, Eh, sir, the doctor is just a gran' man, but I got somehow tired of his natural history. A little while ago he took up with spiders. I never kenned before that there was a science of spiders, what he called Arachnology. Well, sir, for a number of Sundays he was always saying something about they spiders. He was just a gran' man, but I could not always get along with his natural history. And this, which is an illustration from his ministrations in London, is only a continuation of what characterized the early years of h...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217365611
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217365612
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 472 gr


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