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"My Lord," he began, in a voice that even Brenda hardly recognised, "like yourself, I have been unable to find any actual error in the lecturer's demonstrations of which I will take permission to call the possibility of the impossible; in other words, that a contradiction in terms can be true and false at one and the same time.
If he had seen the lecturer's smile as he delivered one of his playful statements of a runaway truth, fact unhorsed by imagination, sometimes by wit, or humor, he would have found a meaning in his words which the featureless printed page could never show him. The Essay on "Illusions" has little which we have not met with, or shall not find repeating itself in the Poems.
This article is not intended as a sermon, but if as lecturers we are to be educators we must not neglect to use the greatest weapons against ignorance in the educational armory books. The books here referred to are not the volumes in the lecturer's own library. They, of course, are indispensable.
This being acceded to, she set forth and gave her first reading in Bridgeport, Conn., on the evening of September 19, 1872. The following extracts from letters written to her husband while on this reading tour throw some interesting gleams of light on the scenes behind the curtain of the lecturer's platform. From Boston, October 3d, she writes: "Have had a most successful but fatiguing week.
Stephen could not have heard the Chautauqua lecturer's statement, for he affirmed that "Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds." Consider now the assumptions of the critics in the face of the claims of the book of Leviticus.
There was enough of the lecturer's own vehemence and impetuosity in this opening attack sustained as it undeniably was by a sound foundation of truth to appeal strongly to the majority of his audience. Mrs. Sowler began to think that her sixpence had been well laid out, after all; and Mrs.
The most I could spur him to was an indignant defence of London against the lecturer's denunciation of it as an immoral city, a pit of unrighteousness. "'T ain't true!" he thundered raucously. "Many's the gent from Lunnon as has behaved most liberal to me." One day there was an attempt to disturb Joe's monopoly as drunkard, and I am afraid I had a hand in it.
Bisset's passion for expounding the principles of their professions sometimes exceeding his tact. He might have been in the thirties or he might have been in the fifties. "With regard to these ladies' bicycles, miss " he began with a lecturer's air. But by this time Cicely was also an expert in side-tracking her friend's theoretical essays. "Oh, how clever of you!" she exclaimed rapturously.
By a kind of natural selection Richards became Elsmere's chief helper and adjutant in the Sunday lectures, with regard to all such matters as beating up recruits, keeping guard over portfolios, handing round maps and photographs, &c. supplanting in this function the jealous and sensitive Mackay, who, after his original opposition, had now arrived at regarding Robert as his own particular property, and the lecturer's quick smile of thanks for services rendered as his own especial right.
The result of this system is, that lecture-courses upon specialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matters of education are delivered to very large ones. I heard of one case where, day after day, the lecturer's audience consisted of three students and always the same three. But one day two of them remained away.
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