By hearing him often, I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly compos'd, and those which he had often preach'd in the course of his travels. His delivery of the latter was so improv'd by frequent repetitions that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turn'd and well plac'd, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleas'd with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that receiv'd from an excellent piece of musick. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
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Wasn't he cross eyed? Whitfield, I mean. I think Franklin calculated the amount of people who could hear Whitfield during any given sermon, it was thousands. How much do churches drop on sound systems these days?
You are correct..a homely fellow indeed.
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