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But the Essay never lost the character it borrowed from the conditions under which it was delivered; it was a lay sermon, concio ad populum. We must always remember what we are dealing with. "Expect nothing more of my power of construction, no ship-building, no clipper, smack, nor skiff even, only boards and logs tied together."
But the Essay never lost the character it borrowed from the conditions under which it was delivered; it was a lay sermon, concio ad populum. We must always remember what we are dealing with. "Expect nothing more of my power of construction, no ship-building, no clipper, smack, nor skiff even, only boards and logs tied together."
This was the recognized work of his life, in which he was engaged, at any rate, in his earlier years; or he spoke to the populace, in what was called the Concio, or assembly of the people speeches made before a crowd called together for a special purpose, as were the second and third orations against Catiline; or in the Senate, in which a political rather than a judicial sentence was sought from the votes of the Senators.
More of a concio ad vulgus than the former, it shows a pretty obvious endeavour to soften and popularise, without unduly vulgarising, the academic tone of the earlier work. The mannerisms, indeed, like the dogmatisms, are pretty clearly imminent. Slightly exotic vocabulary "habitude" "repartition," for "habit," "distribution" makes its appearance.
Rome consisted of the Senate proposing, the concio or people resolving, and too often debating, which caused her storms; as also of the consuls, censors, aediles, tribunes, praetors, quaestors, and other magistrates, executing.
His habits are by no means sufficiently clerical: this he knows that I see; and no man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation. I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part of one which he had newly begun to write: and Concio pro Tayloro appears in one of his diaries.
COME up here, my anxious friend, and I'll read my Concio to you; for it is written, as I preferred to do, before the warm and cold, wet and dry meslin of April weather comes, which always breaks me up in my studies. I will read it to you, and I rather think you will like it. . . . But do not make yourself uneasy.
His habits are by no means sufficiently clerical: this he knows that I see; and no man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation. I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part of one which he had newly begun to write: and Concio pro Tayloro appears in one of his diaries.
In the small degree that it could be exerted usefully he trusted it would be. He expressed himself to the same effect and still more regretfully in his last written production, his 'Concio coram synodo' in 1761.
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