 | 1818 - 588 str.
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...enforced; their aim seeming to be rather to make us firesbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the 4th chapter to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 str.
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study : but...arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect,and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and uneditying, since not a single moral principle... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 str.
...Vol. II p. 1, and p. 535. preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...good citizens. At length' he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter to the Philippians, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 str.
...II. p. 1, and p. 52.5. preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chieflj either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 str.
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...good citizens. At length he took for his text that verse of the fourth chapter to the Philippians, " Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 str.
...been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion i had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines ot our sect, and were all to me... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 654 str.
...Vol. H. p. 1, and p. 525. preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chieflj either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our 'sect, and were... | |
 | Presbyterian Historical Society of America (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Richard Webster - 1857 - 726 str.
...in my opinion, a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but...than good citizens. At length he took for his text, Phil. iv. 8:—' Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, or of good... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 684 str.
...in my opinion, a good preacher, perhaps I. might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study. But...discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 666 str.
...in my opinion, a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study. But...discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explanations of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and... | |
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I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses... 
