The book Particulars of the Life of a Dissenting Minister was written by author Charles Lloyd Here you can read free online of Particulars of the Life of a Dissenting Minister book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Particulars of the Life of a Dissenting Minister a good or bad book?
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Alas ! no corrections were at- tempted by the instructor, whose department it was to revise what we had written. Whatever solitary judgment we might exercise, it was not cultivated by any direction from superior taste and experience. With what pity and contempt do I call to recol- lection the barbarism, and vulgarity, and nonsense, which were emptied forth from the library tribune on the heads of the rude mob of pretended students, who sat below, to hear without know ledge of gram- mar, to comm...ent without one principle of taste ! Better had it been, perhaps, in some respects, if the neglect of the former years had continued, than that this caricature of oratory and preaching should have been so unblushingly exhibited. What have I heard under the names of sermons and orations ! It is a fact that one read something by way of sermon, which he seemed to have cabbaged from a visitation discourse of one of our ancient dignitaries. Would you believe it? Such was his blindness, that he intro- 51 duced a sentence to this purpose, speaking, I think, of religion: — "This is a dish to he set hef'ore your parishioners of greater worth, &c.
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