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Their example, however, infused some slight ardour into the established pulpit, and its sermons were no longer dull rechauffes of Epictetus, and substitutes for the Gospel, taken from the schoolboy recollections of Plato.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various