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homily 82 occurrences

in the 26 homily upon Gen.] Saint John Chrisostome in the fiftie & sixt homily uppon the booke of Genesis, intreatinge or speaking of the mariage of Jacob, doth very much condemne daunsescalling them diuilish.

in the 26 homily upon Gen.] Saint John Chrisostome in the fiftie & sixt homily uppon the booke of Genesis, intreatinge or speaking of the mariage of Jacob, doth very much condemne daunsescalling them diuilish.

homily upon Gen.]

The like is founde in the fourty and eighte Homily.

This homily, besides being preached in a tone of calm determination, which left no room to hope for any abatement, had exhausted another minute or two of the time already so precious.

Vanitas vanitatum was the text of many a homily that she delivered, and a certain sadness replaced the sense of malice that had once possessed her.

This homily is drawn from me with reluctance, because in the main I am a strong believer in Mr. MAIS, and (with his connivance) have every intention of retaining that attitude.

We are gradually nearing the point, where it is conceded that in certain conditions of society, one failing is not wholly incompatible with a general practice of virtuea remark to be met with in every homily since homilies were written, notwithstanding that rigid rule already alluded to in the previous chapter.

Dissertation N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate^, tractation^; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect^; excursus. commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading article; editorial; running commentary.

Even Mrs. Kingdom plucked up spirit and read the astonished captain a homily upon the first duties of a parenta homily which she backed up by reading the story of the Prodigal Son through to the bitter end.

Even Mrs. Kingdom plucked up spirit and read the astonished captain a homily upon the first duties of a parenta homily which she backed up by reading the story of the Prodigal Son through to the bitter end.

An Irish homily refers to the mortification of the saints and religious of the time as martyrdom, of which it distinguishes three kindsred, white, and blue.

It is rather remarkable that Hippolytus and Epiphanius, who furnish the fullest accounts of the tenets of Basilides (and his followers), say nothing about his Gospel: neither does Irenaeus or Clement of Alexandria; the first mention of it is in Origen's Homily on St. Luke.

In that year a complete edition was at last published by Dressel from a manuscript in the Vatican containing the rest of the nineteenth and the twentieth Homily.

The key-note of the passage is given in the identification of the gate with the person of the Saviour ('I am the door') and in the remarkable expression 'he that entereth in through me,' which is retained in the Homily.

The author of 'Supernatural Religion' undertakes to show 'that the context of this passage in the Homily bears positive characteristics which render it impossible that it can have been taken from the fourth Gospel' [Endnote 293:2].

If there is anything here at all inconsistent with the Gospel it would be interesting to know (and we are not told) what was the kind of original that the author of the Homily really had before him.

An Irish homily refers to the mortification of the saints and religious of the time as martyrdom, of which it distinguishes three kindsred, white, and blue.

If we see them together, perhaps we shall hear the senior scoff at his younger companion as a poetic dreamer, as a hunter after phantoms that never were, nor could be, in nature: then may follow a homily on the virtues of experience, as the only security against disappointment.

What would be the natural effect of the following sentence, which I quote from a late well-written religious homily?

" I have no intention to moralise or to indulge in a homily against the reading of what is deliberately evil.

It appears that the supposed anniversary of his death (July 20) had long been regarded in the East as a solemn festival, and that it was the custom to read publicly, on this occasion, some homily relating to his life and death.

In some confusion he confessed that he had brought none, whereupon I read him a homily on the duties of a cavalryman, and sent the whole outfit to San Fernando to get the horses reshod and provided with extra shoes for the trip.

They belong to the post-Shandian period, and are in obvious imitation of the Shandian style; while in none of the earlier onesnot even in that famous homily on a Good Conscience, which did not succeed till Corporal Trim preached it before the brothers Shandy and Dr. Slopcan we trace either the trick of style or the turn of thought that give piquancy to the novel.

The next is a discussion somewhat after the manner of the Nut-Brown Maid, again paraphrased from the Diana (Book I); while the eighth, lastly, is a homily on the superiority of Christianity over Roman polytheism, in which under obsolete forms the author no doubt intended an allusion to contemporary controversies.

sermon 2281 occurrences

When the congregation had assembled, the priest ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon full of the spirit of wisdom.

It was as solemn asas a sermon.

One Sunday, just after the sermon was over, I remembered that I had forgotten to give instructions to the nurse in respect to a patient, and left the church without waiting for the end of the service.

The inquisitor (who was one of those who had accused me of irreligion), being vexed that I contradicted him by going to church regularly, was anxious to make me confess that I did not care for the service: but I saw through his policy as well as his hypocrisy, and simply told him the truth; namely, that I had forgotten important business, and therefore thought it excusable to leave as soon as the sermon was over.

This time it is taken not from a French knight, but from a sermon of the great Italian preacher, St. Bernardino of Siena.

Really that sermon he gave last Sunday on Esau seemed to me the absolute limit.

I said to my wife and some friends, as we walked away from the church, that a sermon like that seemed to me to come from the dregs of the human intellect.

Mind you, I don't believe in criticising a sermon.

When I say that the sermon was punk, I don't say it as criticism.

Had it been the Sisters of the hospital, as M. le Curé thought, would they have let the opportunity pass of preaching a sermon to us, and recommending their doctrines?

" Charles, meanwhile, had risen and dressed, and came out when Bridget knocked; a spectacle, indeed,a walking sermon on the perils that may follow what are termed "good times."

The "well-languaged Daniel," of whom Ben Jonson said that he was "a good honest man, but no poet," wrote, however, one fine meditative piece, his Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland, a sermon apparently on the text of the Roman poet Lucretius's famous passage in praise of philosophy, Suave, mari magno, turbantibus æquora ventis, E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem.

His deep spirituality and eloquence are exemplified in the following sermon.

When his health was drunk at the breakfast he preached quite a little sermon as he returned thanks, holding his bride's hands in his the while, performing his part in the scene in a manner which no one else would have dared to attempt.

And here was this old curmudgeon coming along with a sermon on "duty," "family," "what they would say"as if love amounted to nothing in this life!

He is the author of several well-known books, from one of which the sermon here given is taken as indicating his familiarity with and liking for dramatic literature.

His most widely quoted sermon, "Sinners in the Eyes of an Angry God," while powerful and impressive, does not do him justice.

It is believed the sermon presented here discloses to greater advantage the tender and saintly side of his character.

" As the latter comedy depicts a self-indulgent, crawling hypocrite of the worst type, and is an eloquent sermon against sham, it may be imagined that the Jacobites were not over enthusiastic when they learned that the moral of "Tartuffe" was to be applied to them.[A]

" This was a sermon which Gilbert Fenton had occasion to preach very often in the slow weary days that followed John Saltram's recovery of his right senses.

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" Oh, the terrors of this my first sermon, horrors to preacher as well as to "preachees."

I thought of the experience of the first sermon by a theological student which I had recently read in a comic paper, and I trembled lest history was to repeat itself.

On this elevating theme he wrote a sensational sermon and committed it to memory in order that he might electrify his audience with eye power as well as by verbal flow of soul.

The sign of the cross made at the opening of a sermon often has great effect upon good Catholics.

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