"Memoriter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... science, and of late years Dr. Watkinson has become more and more addicted to spiritualizing the aspects of modern scientific discovery. Dr. Watkinson never reads his utterances from a manuscript. Nor does he preach memoriter, as far as the language of his addresses is concerned. They are always carefully thought out and are never characterized by florid diction. His simple, strong Anglo-Saxon endears him to the people, for he is never guilty of an obscure sentence. He is in the habit of saying, 'I have always ...
— The world's great sermons, Volume 8 - Talmage to Knox Little • Grenville Kleiser
... uniformity of the man that reads. I once heard it well observed, that the least animated mode of communicating thoughts to others, is the reading from a book the composition of another; the next in order is the reading one's own composition; the next is delivering one's own composition memoriter; and the most animated of all is the uttering one's own thoughts as they rise fresh in his mind. Very few can give the spirit to another's writings which they communicate to their own, or can read their own with the spirit, with which they spontaneously express their thoughts. We have all witnessed ...
— Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching • Henry Ware
... Archia sub Dno Petro Francio memoriter recitavi Wilhelmus de Wilde in Athenaei auditorio Majore, a.d. xviii ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 • Various |
