Occasional Papers Selected From the Guardian the Times And the Saturday Revie
Occasional Papers Selected From the Guardian the Times And the Saturday Revie
Church Richard William
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254 XIV perfecting of his powers, the changes in his manner of preaching, and the gradual progress by which defects were thrown off, and the final direction and concen- tration of his intellectual forces determined. M. Gandar's literary judgments partake sometimes of the exaggeration natural to any exclusive study, especially if the student be a Frenchman, and the subject Bossuet To say that Bossuet was " the most accom- plished orator who has appeared in the world since Demosthenes " shows tha...t M. Gandar has something to learn both about Demosthenes and the history of the world. But he has brought great zeal and intelligence to his work, and has spared himself no pains ; and Bossuet is sufficiently great to make an inquiry of much interest, which exhibits in authentic detail how he prepared himself for his task as a preacher, and how his great gifts unfolded and shaped themselves. Bossuet was so emphatically a preacher, that not one of his innumerable sermons was destined by him to be printed and read.
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