| Show tiie THE NAKED EDGE I 1 am 11 tormented fomented with the di sire cf preaching better than I 1 can but I 1 have i ci 0 wish to make fine pretty sermons prettiness is well enough when prettiness a is in its place I 1 like a pretty child pretty flower but io in a sermon prettiness is out of place to my ear par it would be anything but commendation should it be said to me you have given us a pretty sermon er if it 1 I were upon t ial for my life and my advocate should amuse the jury with his tropes trope s and figures burying his argument beneath a profusion of the flowers of rhetoric I 1 would say to him tut tiit man you care mora more for your yoa vanity than for my hanging put yourself in my place speak in vew view of the gallows and you will tell fell your story plainly and eai ear earnestly eaic nestly estly 1 I 1 have no objection to a ladys winding a sword with ribbons ribbon and studding it with roses when then ahe he presents it to her hero lover over but in the day of battle he will tear ear par away the ornaments ornament and use the naked edge 0 to the enemy robert hall 1 |
