The American Common-Place book of Prose: a Collection of Eloquent And ...
The American Common-Place book of Prose: a Collection of Eloquent And ...
George Barrell Cheever
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The whole house resounded with the mingled groans, and sobs, and shrieks of the congregation. It was sometime before the tumult had subsided, so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usu- al, but fallacious standard of my own weakness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not conceive how he would be able to let his audi- ence down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject, or perh...aps shocking them by the abruptness of the fiill. But — ^no : the descent was as beautiful and sublime as th* elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. Digitized by VjOOQIC COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF PROSf^. 26^ The first lentence, with which he broke the awful si- lence, was a quotation from Rousseau : " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ, like a God !" I despair of giving you any idea of the effecf produced by this short sentence, unless you could perfectly conceive the whole manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse.
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