Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Edward Everett, William Ellery Channing, Alexander H. Everett, James Marsh, Timothy Walker, James Freeman Clarke, Orestes A. Brownson, Samson Reed

Transcendentalists

Politics & Social Sciences

Timothy, Walker

Edward, Everett

William Ellery Channing

James Freeman Clarke

James Marsh

Orestes A. Brownson

Joseph Stevens Buckminster

Alexander H. Everett

Samson Reed

Philosophy

Harvard University Press

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...threatened to supplant good wr.zir.z in this cc-ntry. intended to be elegant, but fell into jc;uneness and ir_f:;.city. It delighted in words and arra elements of words which were little soiled by common use. and rr.istook a?pr_ce neatness for grace. We had a Procrustes bed for sentences, and there seemed to be a settled war between the style of writing and the free style of conversation. Times, we think, have changed. Men have learned more to write as they speak, and are ashamed to dress up familiar thoughts as if ihey were just arrived from a far country and could not appear in public without a foreign and studied attire They have learned that common words are common, precisely because most fitted to express real feeling and strong conception, and that the circuitous, measured phraseology, which was called elegance, was but the parade of weakness. They have learned that words are the signs of thought, and worthless counterfeits without it, and that style is good when, instead of being anxiously cast into a mould, it seems a free and natural expression of thought, and gives to us with power the workings of the author's mind We have been led to make these remarks on the style which in a degree marks the book before us, from a persuasion that this mode of writing has been particularly injurious to religion, and to rational religion. It has crept into sermons, perhaps, more than into any other compositions, and has imbued them with that soporific quality which they have sometimes been found to possess in an eminent degree. How many hearers have been soothed by a smooth, watery flow of words, a regular chime of sentences, and elegantly rocked into repose! We are aware that preachers, above all writers, are excusable for this style, because it is the easiest; a...

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Literary

Kessinger Publishing

A Selection From the Works of William E. Channing D. D (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Selection From the Works of William E. Channing D. DThe circulation in this country of more than one hundred and twenty thousand volumes of the works of the late Wil liam Ellery Charming, D. D., attests the interest that is felt among us in these writings. Many editions in England, and recent translations in France, Germany, and Italy, give proof that their inﬂuence is not confined to this country. In the general unsettling of old Opinions, in the growing disposition to look at Christianity from new and higher points of view, we may find reasons to believe that few authors are destined to have a wider inﬂuence; while the rational basis on which he rests his faith in Christianity, the profound reverence with which he surveys its claims, and the primitive simplicity to which he restores its substance, point him out as one of the most needed and beneficent teachers of this age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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