Sentences with phrase «emotion upon the text»

Otherwise, this text is too close for comfort, and Kierkegaard knew it: «In the magnificent cathedral the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime - General - Ober - Hof - Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: «God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised.»