Therefore hearken they to the preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds.
They excited afresh their preachers to furious declamations against the royal cause.
You have listened to the ranting, mechanical cadence of inefficient actors, lawyers and preachers.
It is the Anglo-Saxon trait, distinguishing all great preachers, actors, and authors of that breed.
"Yes; but seriousness is not unbecoming in preachers, and the music of the ballet would drown half my arguments.
These men, on their first appearance on the Continent, caused much surprise, they were so startlingly different from those preachers the people had been accustomed to.
On that day, the preachers, after many political prayers, took care to treat of the reigning divisions in the parliament, and ascribed them entirely to the selfish ends pursued by the members.
For "fine sermons" Vincent had the greatest contempt; he would use his merry wit to make fun of the pompous preachers whose only thought was to impress their audience with an idea of their own eloquence.
A fast, on the last Wednesday of every month, had been ordered by the parliament at the beginning of these commotions; and their preachers on that day were careful to keep alive, by their vehement declamations, the popular prejudices entertained against the king, against prelacy, and against Popery.
"Well, even granting that, I don't think health has anything to do with goodness; of course, it's valuable to a great saint to be able to stand enormous strains, but this fad of popular preachers rising on their toes in simulated virility, bellowing that calisthenics will save the world--no, Burne, I can't go that."