This is read at every Sunday service and is the basis of alllectures and explanatory advertisements.
Footnote 1: I have taken as a working definition of Religion a phrase quoted by Ward Fowler in the introduction to his Gifford Lectures on "The Religious Experience of the Roman People.
No series of lectures yet given on this famous foundation have been more interesting and stimulating than these illuminating studies of scriptural books by a layman and library expert.
In his later years he used often to give lectures on various subjects to children.
A good many of his mornings were spent in giving lectures and telling stories at schools.
On the 5th he began a course of Logic Lectures at Abbot's Hospital.
The Studentship which he held was not meant to tie him down to lectures and examinations.
There is in this statement of the predominant character of our popular lecturesmuch that is true, as we could easily show by a definite examination of the most popular discourses to which our audiences listen.
According to the Methodist Quarterly, always well informed upon such matters, his exegetical Lectures upon the New Testament are of even greater merit than his compositions in history.
What I for one should like to see in such an institution as this, would be an attempt to compress the whole history of England into a dozen or fifteen lectures--lectures of course accompanied by catechetical instruction.
While living in New Haven he availed himself of the opportunity to attend lectures at Yale College.
Not a student there but went away with an added fund of information, which is far more than can be said of most of the lectures in a German university.
It was the West End that made a fad of the institution and a society function of the lectures of Sydney Smith and of the charming youth Davy.
The library and thelectures remained, to be sure, but they were for the amusement of the rich, not for the betterment of the poor.
The chief courses of instruction consist of two series each year of lectures and laboratory demonstrations on topics within the field of bacteriology.
One can but contrast such teaching as this with the lectures of the average German professor, who seems not to concern himself in the least as to whether anything is understood by any one.
The ordinary lectures of Professor Virchow were held in a neighboring amphitheatre of conventional type.
These lecturesproved remarkably popular, and for ten years he repeated them at the meetings of the Board of Agriculture.
In addition to his lectures Davy worked hard in the well-stocked laboratory of the Institution, where he was supplied with a corps of capable assistants.
Jackson, of Boston, who had been attending certainlectures on electricity in Paris, and an American artist named Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
The Philosophical Magazine said of the new lion, "The sensation created by his first course of lectures at the Institution, and the enthusiastic admiration which they obtained, is at this period hardly to be imagined.
True, when he was an undergraduate at Yale he had been much interested in Professor Day's lectures on electricity, and had written long letters home in regard to them.
Coleridge said, "I attend Davy's lectures to increase my stock of metaphors," and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science.
He prepared his lectureswith the greatest care, and he delivered them with that attention to dramatic effect which is instinctive in all really great speakers.
To this end he visited tan-yards and farmers, and in 1802 began to deliver a course oflectures on "The Connection of Chemistry with Vegetable Physiology.
The kind reception which these lectures received has led to their publication in the present volume.
I feel that I have in the progress of these two lectures been only able to give the merest outline of the theory of tidal evolution in its application to the earth-moon system.
In that application of mathematics with which we have been concerned in these lectures the call for the mathematician has been of quite a different kind.
The theory of tidal evolution which I am describing in these lecturesis mainly the work of Professor George H.
The demonstration of the law of the tide-producing force is of a mathematical character, and I do not intend in these lectures to enter into mathematical calculations.
I have taken the opportunity to supplement the lectures as actually delivered by the insertion of some additional matter.
To chronicle this history is the object of the presentlectures before this Institution.
In the progress of these lectures I have sought to interest you in those profound investigations which the modern mathematician has made in his efforts to explore the secrets of nature.
I have all through these lectures indicated a mighty system of chronology for the earth-moon system.
Alcala and Valladolid were the principal theological schools, and there, in addition to the older studies of Dogmatic Theology and Ethics, courses of lectures wore given in Biblical Exegesis.
He began his work by giving lectures daily in St. Peter's on the Epistles of St. Paul.
He returned to Paris and entered the College Fortet, meaning to attend the lecturesof the Humanist professors whom Francis I.
His lectures and his sermons to the townspeople caused such a movement that the bishop forbade their delivery.
The Hellenistic world was thoroughly sophisticated, and Alexandria was distinguished above all towns as the home of philosophical lectures and book-making.
His lectures were bad, from his utter want of language, but he took great pains with his diagrams, and his ideas were often original.
Opie delivered hislectures in 1807, the year in which he died.
This society still give lectures and rewards, and does about as much good as ever it did.
Fuseli began in 1801, and delivered but twelvelectures in all.
A feature of its lectures is the annual course "adapted to a juvenile auditory.
Lectures on the Historical and Dogmatical Position of the Church of England.
I endeavoured to explain to them that these lectures were intended to be astronomical, not gastronomical, and that eating and drinking up the heavenly bodies in this reckless way was very improper.
It may be objected, that there is a kind of university at Gresham college, where professors in all sciences are maintained, and obliged to read lectures every day, or at least as often as demanded.
The design is most laudable, but it smells too much of the sine cure; they only read in term time, and then their lecturesare so hurried over, the audience is little the better.
Once, when at a loss for means to assist a friend at Kirkcaldy, who had been associated with him in the volunteer service, the chemical lectures were trotted out to the rescue.
Irving was then delivering lectures on prophecy in Edinburgh to enormous audiences.
In the University of St. Andrews he had given a course of lectures upon it.
Accordingly we find that, when passing slowly in his gig over some monotonous part of the road, he would pull from his pocket a grave book, like Mede's Latin Lectures on Prophecy, and have a spell of theological reading.
He delivered several lectures to his students, which were afterwards collected and published in a volume.
One of them remarked afterwards that they learned more of Christian ethics at these meetings than from all his class-room lectures on moral philosophy.
The lectures were subsequently repeated at Kilmany and at Cupar.
But in point of fact there was more than enough of solid thought and ingenious speculation in his lectures to do away with any such impression.
The mathematical classes were not repeated in the following session, but the chemical lectures were resumed, and carried on twice a week with increased enthusiasm.
It had long been his desire to reduce his lectures to a form that would convey the fruits of his maturest reflections, both on the credentials and contents of the Christian revelation.
The judgment had not become final, for it was subject to appeal to the House of Lords, and in his lectures Dr.
Further, the contention of Chalmers in his London lectures and in his latest deliverance (see p.
But I am not certain that the Age of Apollinaris and lectures has yet produced anything that can vie as literature with the products of the ages of Wine and Song.
Lockhart's book was Schlegel's Lectures on History, and his publisher was Mr. Blackwood.
Even better, perhaps, are the two sets of lectures on the Poets and Comic Writers.
He went first to the university of Louvain, where he resided about two years, and then to the college of Rheims, where he had extraordinary success in his public lectures on Euclid's Elements.
He was a precocious child and delivered lectures on temperance and on Sunday schools before he was fourteen years old.
Assy, receiver-general of finances; and while acting in this capacity, attended the lectures of J.
His lectureson Old Testament Prophecy were published after his death by Professor J.
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