In turn, these assumptions lead into a form of historical primitivism in which the products of the first poets were “extemporary effusions,” rudely imitative of pastoral scenes or celebratory of the divine being.
I wonder if there is anything in all billet, trench or Base existence to equal an extemporary concert?
An extemporary concert, with many choruses, a packed house, an enthusiastic, cheering audience.
At one end men are engaged in putting in three extemporary baths, others whitewashing the walls.
Then a long extemporary prayer, then another hymn, then a sermon nearly an hour long.
School was concluded with a short extemporary prayer.
As for extemporaryprayer not being a form, that is absurd.
Leibnitz is of opinion that the method might be convenient in extemporary speaking; which is the utmost limit that can be assigned to its usefulness.
The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer.
If any thing new occur, he may supply it from his own invention; nor will the difference be very apparent between his elaborate and his extemporary compositions.
Their great affectation of extemporary discourses has made them reject all order and method, which seems so requisite to argument, and without which it is scarcely possible to produce an entire conviction on the mind.
Mr. Cartwright began, almost in a whisper, to utter his extemporary prayer.
Some in the pulpits of our churches and cathedrals 'shall conceive a long crude extemporary prayer, in reproach of all the prayers which the Church with such admirable prudence and devotion hath been making before.
As for politicians, they do not abound with that species of men so much as we; but as ours are not so famous for writing as for extemporarydissertations in coffee-houses, they are more annoyed with memoirs of this nature also than we are.
Daniel Rowlands and some other young clergymen began to preach in the same extemporary manner as Harris did.
The spinners celebrated their young master's return in the extemporary songs, so common among their countrywomen.
You are independent of your mood, on which the extemporary preacher has to lean so much.
Amongst the many questions discussed by aspirants to pulpit success, perhaps the greatest prominence is given to the relative merits of the written or the extemporary sermon.
The extemporary preacher challenges nature on her own ground.
Those who champion the method of extemporary preaching lay great stress on two points.
The defenders of extemporarypreaching must postulate three essentials in any man undertaking the office.
Till the young priest, then, comes to his task as well furnished as a Gladstone or a Bright, the advocates of extemporary speaking are out of count.
I) The extemporary preacher has a natural warmth and earnestness of conviction that goes straight to the heart.
You have to spend as much time in gathering and arranging the matter for the extemporary as for the written one.
Side note: Defence of the system I] The first great difficulty against extemporary preaching is that, though a priest studies his subject and maps his plan, he still reckons without his host.
When the question is probed to the bottom you will find that all advocacy of extemporary preaching resolves itself into an apology for laziness.
If the carefully prepared sermon cost as little trouble as the extemporary effort, would the world ever have heard of this discussion?
This is the usual series of evolutions through which an extemporary preacher passes.
So far as the writer remembers, not a single prayer in the whole book begins with that formula so dear to the makers of extemporary forms of devotion, "O Thou.
In connection with this clause there sprang up an animated and interesting debate in the House of Deputies as to the wisdom of thus seeming to cut off every opportunity for extemporary prayer in our public services.
An extemporary session of the Council has found Pelton guilty of assaulting Literate Bayne, and has fined him ten million dollars," Armandez announced.
Unfortunately for him, he wasn't present at theextemporary meeting that reversed Bayne's action in calling the strike.
The routine held-over business was rubber-stamped with hasty votes of approval, even including the decisions of the extemporary meeting of that morning on the affair at Pelton's.
The Roman youth thus learned to imitate their gestures and music, which they accompanied with railing verses delivered in extemporary dialogue.
This whimsical sort of expiation seems to have attracted the fancy of the Roman youths, who imitated the Etruscan actors; but they improved on the entertainment, by rallying each other in extemporary and jocular lines.
The part written out was in iambic verse, but the extemporary dialogue which filled up the scene was in prose, or in the rudest species of versification.
Ennius, perceiving how much the Romans had been delighted with the rude satires poured forth in extemporary dialogue, thought it might be worth his pains to compose satires not to be recited but read.
And thereupon after a movement which intimated that all present were kneeling, the presiding voice offered up an extemporary prayer of great power and even eloquence.
Further, in reference to Bishop Wilberforce, remarkable stories were current showing what a marvellous gift of extemporary eloquence he possessed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extemporary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: extemporaneous; impromptu; improvised; makeshift; offhand; unpremeditated; unstudied
