Moralizing lecture

Usage examples of homily.

Cunningham, have been laid before the Committee of the Prayer Book and Homily Society, who have agreed to print the translation of the first three Homilies into the Russian language at St.

This reminds us of the Didache and has its parallel even in the first homily of Aphraates.

The Squire took exception to me being absent yesterday and reeled off a homily about never being home.

He launched into a homily on the virtues that went into a successful marriage which was so perfectly conventional that Marcus found himself anticipating what the patriarch would say three sentences before it came.

In the original poem, Brynhild delays her self-immolation on the pyre of Siegfried to read the assembled choristers a homily on the efficacy of the Love panacea.

He cut the homily out, and composed the music of the final scene with a flagrant recklessness of the old intention.

His homily led off with such fulsome praise of Monsieur, that, from that day forward, he lost all his credit, and sensible people thereafter only looked upon him as a vile sycophant, a mere dealer in flattery and fairy-tales.

She at once became gentle, sycophantic, almost caressing in manner, and assured me that the ceremony of taking the vow would be indefinitely postponed, although the Bishop of Lugon had already prepared his homily, and invitations had been issued to the nobility.

The Prince de Conti appeared to me very much affected by this homily and disappointment.

He describes the Grammar, the Rhetoric, the learned Profession, the Schools, the Exegesis, the Homilies, etc.

The Recognitions and Homilies, in the form in which we have them, do not belong to the second century, but at the very earliest to the first half of the third.

The Homilies are completely saturated with stoicism, both in their ethical and metaphysical systems, and are opposed to Platonism, though Plato is quoted in Hom.

The Homilies, as we have them, are mainly composed of the speeches of Peter and others.

But I confess I do not know how Catholic circles got over the fact that, for example, in the third book of the Homilies many passages of the old Testament are simply characterised as untrue, immoral and lying.

Here the Homilies remind one strongly of the Syllogisms of Apelles, the author of which, in other respects, opposed them in the interest of his doctrine of creating angels.