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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of exactly the same advice in the 4,000 lines of John Dunton's The Pulpit-Fool , published in 1707, serves to alert us to the possibility that Sterne echoes a long tradition of irenic and moral preaching after the religious wars of the seventeenth century. Dunton offers more than 200 preachers, across...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 76–98.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of rational religion. To its followers, Methodism offered a model of spiritual sincerity and moral piety through internal revelations best exhibited through passionate, extemporary preaching. For anti-Methodists, it was crucial to formalize the supposedly organic occurrence of the extempore, thus reducing its...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 80–110.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., though not always successfully, to challenge the grounds on which the anti-Methodists mounted their campaign against Methodism. Like other features of the revival, such as open-air preaching and lay ministry, hymn singing generated controversy; paradoxically, this controversy provided much of the energy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... numbers. In 1685 Fran-
cis Turner, Bishop of Ely, said that 3,000 such sermons were preached each
year.2 If the law was fully enforced, that number was far too low given the
approximately 10,000 Anglican parishes in the British Isles.3 There thus
could have been about one million thirtieth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 44–47.
Published: 01 January 2009
... loud. That reader—along with preach-
ers, actors, and novelists—as Goring convincingly argues, was immersed in a
heated and continuously evolving debate over bodily gestures. Goring considers
this debate in relation to the contemporaneous emergence of notions of polite-
ness, and, in so doing...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 January 2016
... almost obsessed in representing, especially in their public and, it was
often charged, theatrical demonstrations of belief, namely conversion, effusive
preaching, and passionate hymn-singing. According to Anderson, Methodist
theology and spirituality worked “to place the contingent, open-ended idea...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of these preachers included Philip
Nye, John Owen (formerly vice-chancellor of Oxford University), Thomas
Goodwin (formerly president of Magdalene College), and John Griffith
(formerly minister at the London Charterhouse).19 Most of these preach-
ers were either Presbyterian...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 150–155.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Unitarian beliefs, resulting in “carefully mod-
ulated emotional responses to aesthetic experiences” (43). And in the same
chapter, White goes on to show how debates about the validity of particular
or experimental preaching—spontaneous preaching designed to communicate
and demonstrate revelation...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Literature 4 1
lecture on “Eloquence of the Pulpit,” Blair advocates a passionate, engaged
style of preaching. Since persuasion is the preacher’s aim, his eloquence
“must be Popular Eloquence.” To connect forcibly with the audience mat-
ters more than observing linguistic proprieties: “Correct...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 14–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., Archbishop William
King of Dublin came regularly to England to promote the Church of Ire-
land, preached at court, and, as a valetudinarian bachelor, took the waters
at Bath. But he could not resist the booksellers’ shops and even the book
auctions.31 Later in the century, the continuing allure...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (1): 82–108.
Published: 01 January 2005
... . . . burnt up, and laid waste in the City,” in a sermon at St. Martin-
in-the-Fields; William Sancroft, in a sermon preached before the king,
spoke about “the earth wasted, and utterly spoiled, and turn’d upside down.”
As late as 1668, Thomas Jacombe, a nonconformist divine, pressed for the
“reedifi...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2025
... capability” (4). Preaching and disseminating a doctrine of universal capacity for people to do their part to get saved became incoherent when, as McKendry teaches us, Baxter lived and worked with parishioners with disabilities, a wife with chronic depression (melancholy), or when he acquired disabilities...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 17–28.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and his Angels” (p. 21).
19. In direct opposition, of course, to Bernard Mandeville’s thesis in The Fable. In-
deed, Joseph Burrough’s A Sermon Preached to the Societies for Reformation of Manners; at
Salters-Hall, on Monday, the 28th of June, 1731 (London, 1731...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of
virtue as they developed in response to the new challenges of the period. I
am interested in John Tillotson, the most influential Anglican churchman
in the Restoration, who preached and wrote on the virtues precisely as a
means to “recover the decayed piety and virtue of the present age.”15...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Jane Austen could well have heard Napleton discussed, read his work, or even met him, though he does not appear in her letters. 33. William Paley, M. A., Advice Addressed to the Young Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle in a Sermon Preached at a General Ordination Holden At Rose-Castle, on Sunday...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 236–261.
Published: 01 January 2024
... opportunities to ascend to authority positions than in other established religions. 10 As Sahle writes, “Women were numerous and influential among the early leaders of the movement. They preached publicly and traveled far and wide, without male companions, in order to spread Truth” (146). Several aspects...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...cation, to set an example of restraint, while still being hospitable and charitable. Anglican leaders rejected the idea of all goods being in common (preached in some radical Methodist circles), else how should the rich demonstrate benevolence? Ecclesiastical decency demanded comfort at home and dig...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 23–27.
Published: 01 September 2010
...—that enabled them to distribute widely the collegial sociability they
both preached and practiced.
Although Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture has much to
commend, Williams’s approach does raise some questions. Despite her refresh-
ing idea of representing Whig writers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 76–80.
Published: 01 September 2010
... be wonderfully thought provoking, and Liu is
right to examine the disjuncture between what people preached and what they
practiced. But some linkages are stronger than others, and the ties to China
often seem tenuous. As a result, there is an open-endedness to some of the
claims that runs the risk...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 April 2001
...,
That preach up Thee for God; dispence thy Laws
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