The Use of the Voice in Reading and Speaking: A Manual for Clergymen and Candidates for Holy OrdersJ. Pott, 1897 - 367 pages |
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action Almighty behold blessed body breath called character Church command confess dead degree of force delivery Divine doth earnestness earth effect emotion emphasis emphatic eternal exercise Exhortation expression eyes faith Father feeling fleeth give glory grace hand hath hear heard hearer heart heaven Holy Communion Holy Ghost implies impressive Israel Jesus Christ living Lord Jesus Lord's Prayer majesty manner marked mercy movement natural passages pause Pharisees phatic Philistine praise pray prayer prophets public speaker pulpit reader reading reverence saith say unto Scripture sealed twelve thousand Sentence Service sheep sins sion slide solemnity soul sound speaking spirit style subdued syllable thine things thou hast Thou shalt thought thy servant tion tone tribe of Benjamin tribe of Gad tribe of Issachar tribe of Joseph tribe of Simeon truth unto thee utterance vocal voice words
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Page 218 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 187 - For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Page 210 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book...
Page 198 - There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Page 184 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 190 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them : but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Page 184 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 49 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 217 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing ; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor ! Ye fools and blind : for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Page 206 - Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou nearest me always : but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.