...equally improper to b^ spoken. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn — pleasing to those who...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. The Bishop of Boulogne suddenly died ; the Abbe, who was beloved by the clergy, and by all the inhahitants,...

...Johnson, B., IV, 116. BY that time Men are fit for Company, they see the Objections to it. Halifax, 243. THE difference between what is commonly called ordinary...company and good company is only hearing the same things said in a little room or in a large salon, at small tables or at great tables, before two candles...

...pulpit. ' Flowers of Rhetoric in Sermons and serious Discourses', he once wrote, 'are like the blue and red Flowers in Corn, pleasing to those who come...prejudicial to him who would reap the Profit from it.'2 By way of contrast, I take a short passage from another famous preacher, Robert South, where...

...expressed by Pope : — " Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses^ are like the blue ana red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only...for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap only the profit." — Thoughts on Various Subjects, xxix. be rather the results, than the precursors,...