 His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed that without being interested in the subject one could not help being pleased...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5161838Full view - About this book
 | Edward Summerfield Ninde - 1924 - 262 pages
...composed and those he had preached often in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly tuned and well-placed that, without being interested in the subject, one could... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed this man's life! He is become a freeholder, from...is now an American, a Pennsylvanian, an English sub with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have... | |
 | Quentin James Schultze - Social Science - 1991 - 368 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that without being interested in the subject, one...with the discourse, a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have... | |
 | William Harrison Pipes - History - 1992 - 236 pages
...in Philadelphia.61 Franklin goes on to describe one of Whitefield's sermons: "His delivery . . . was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent,...emphasis, every modulation of the voice, was so perfectly wellturned that without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the... | |
 | Roger Finke, Rodney Stark - Religion - 1992 - 352 pages
...and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice was so perfectly well turned and well placed that, without being interested in the subject, one... | |
 | John Lawrence Brasher - Clergy - 1994 - 288 pages
...and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of his voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject,... | |
 | Ronald L. Byrnside - Music - 1997 - 168 pages
..."every Accent, every Emphasis, every Modulation of Voice, was so perfectly well turn'd and well plac'd, that without being interested in the Subject, one...with the discourse, a Pleasure of much the same kind with that receiv'd from an excellent Piece of Music."6 Between 1738 and 1770 Whitefield visited the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...every Accent, every Emphasis, every Modulation of Voice, was so perfectly well turn'd and well plac'd, that without being interested in the Subject, one could not help being pleas'd with the Discourse, a Pleasure of much the same kind with that receiv'd from an excellent Piece... | |
 | Frank Lambert - History - 1999 - 318 pages
...every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed that, without being interested in the subject, one...with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music."19 Whitefield's audience appeal consisted of more... | |
 | William Reginald Ward, W. R. Ward - History - 1992 - 394 pages
...his occasional compositions, but his testimony to the former was like Smith's: His delivery ...was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent,...emphasis, every modulation of the voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being... | |
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