"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."

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"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."

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"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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William D. Tammeus, American Columnist

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"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning."

Frederick William Faber, British Theologian

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"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."

John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman

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"The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow."

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"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory."

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"In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached."

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"St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church."

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"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."

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"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."

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"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."

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"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world."

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"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty."

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"With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language."

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