Beattie, James (1735-1803)

Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]

London

Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... and W. Creech

1783

"If, therefore, you are well instructed in theology, the argument of every Sermon will be familiar to you; on every such argument your mind will be stored with a great variety of expression; you can never be at a loss for topicks; and your quotations will be no burden to your Memory"

1. As a general preparative both to the remembrance, and to the composition of Sermons, let it be your care to acquire a competence of theological learning, and to be intimately acquainted with the sentiments and phraseology of Scripture. For that is well remembered, which is well understood: and passages of Holy Writ for a considerable, and when judiciously selected, the most valuable, part, of the preacher's discourse. If, therefore, you are well instructed in theology, the argument of every Sermon will be [end page 47] familiar to you; on every such argument your mind will be stored with a great variety of expression; you can never be at a loss for topicks; and your quotations will be no burden to your Memory.
(III, pp. 47-8)

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At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).

Beattie, James. Dissertations Moral and Critical (London: Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech, 1783). Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970. <Link to Google Books>

07/25/2005