10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREACHIFYING»
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preachifying in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
preachifying and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Preachifying: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations PreachifyingThe business of preaching is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.ndash;AnonymousIf you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.ndash;Bowen BaxterThe ...
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Child's Friend and Family Magazine
I suppose they think hy this, that they will make me religious ; but they are
mistaken, for I don't like any preachifying books or preachifying talk, and I wish
there was no such thing as religion." It is to be supposed that the child who said
this, was ...
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Harriet L. Brown, Anne Wales Abbot, 1849
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Hence preachingshop = a church (or chapel) ; preachifying = tiresome moralising
; preachypreachy = longwindedly moral; preachman =a clergyman;preachment =
affectedly solemn cackle. 1592. Marlowe, EdwardII.,iv.6. Come, come, keep ...
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Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle
... accurately describes what he was doing in his oration attributed to Christ, then
falls into precisely the same preachifying all over again as he tells his audience
how ridiculous preachifying is. And indeed it was ridiculous in Christ's oration.
I figure he have read The Ex-Coloured Man, his theories on race, and his
preachifying. I remember reading that preachifying, though, and thinking why
they keep all that preachifying in that book, because it seem like to me it would
have been ...
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The Churchman, a Magazine in Defence of the Church and ...
I didn't come for any preachifying, or psalm- singing. The next time you give us
one of your hymns, I'll just favour you with a few staves of a comic song, and we
shall soon see which beats." What follows is still more piquant ;— " Mr. Briggens ...
7
The South African Magazine: A Contribution to Colonial ...
Leave me alone, an' I shan't trouble you much more." "Boy," I exclaimed, " you
were going to drown yourself!" " Vell, s'pose an' I vos — vitch I vosn't, cos that's a
lag in the 'ouse 'o e'rection, an' no ind o' preachifying from the 298 GUSTAVUS ...
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Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author
Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father ; "
she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying." " O, sir ! consider the
servants." " The servants be hanged," said Sir Pitt ; and his son thought even ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1849
Get out, ye preachifying hag!” cried O'Rourke, seizing from her hand a noggin of
milk that she had just brought with her, and satisfying his parched throat with a
draught; “ what care the saints or the g00d people for this whiskey-shop of yours,
...
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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down,” said his father; “
she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying.” “O, Sir! consider the
servants.” “The servants be hanged,” said Sir Pitt; and his son thought even
worse ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREACHIFYING»
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preachifying is used in the context of the following news items.
Hey Girl, "Lost River"'s Pretty Out There Review
An almost Malick-like absence of detail is what smooths out Lost River's tonal edges and subdues what might be preachifying messages. «JustPressPlay, Jun 15»
Mike Huckabee: Heading For a 2008 Redux
Huckabee and Santorum will be the Moral Majority candidates, preachifying and maintaining their social and educational ignorance despite ... «PoliticusUSA, Jun 15»
'Tomorrowland' has trouble going back to the future
But he'd have wondered why it had to be married to all the bumpy storytelling and hollow preachifying – especially at the end where absolutely ... «Buffalo.com, May 15»
Tough lessons to learn
Lee's stellar presence is hard to ignore, but his brooding performance is weighed down by the film's “preachifying” convolutions that teach ... «Inquirer.net, Mar 15»
The Wiz at Carnegie Mellon Drama
And Erron Crawford, as The Wiz, is huge fun when he's "preachifying" to his subjects. I will say that Cousin and his design team have come up ... «PGH City Paper, Feb 15»
'Bosch' has a solid hold on the thin blue line
... clipped preachifying, lots of middle-distance gazing, a constant battle to quit smoking — that he has no room to beckon much less beguile. «Los Angeles Times, Feb 15»
A review of Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo
... to the growing revolutionary consciousness of the contemporary generation of students without preachifying in the Bonifacio narrative. «Inquirer.net, Jan 15»
Tenor Ian Bostridge in Benjamin Britten's CURLEW RIVER
One may also bridle at the Abbott's obtrusive preachifying, which seeks to impose a Christian interpretation on the Madwoman's sense of ... «Berkeley Daily Planet, Nov 14»
'1000 Times Good Night': Long exposure to photographer's risks
The film is in danger of turning into a soapbox at a few points, but it wisely keeps most of the preachifying in the words of Rebecca's teen ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Nov 14»
Review: Gorgeous visuals in '1000 Times Good Night'
The film is in danger of turning into a soapbox at a few points, but it wisely keeps most of the preachifying in the words of Rebecca's teen ... «azcentral.com, Oct 14»
