“A good honest and painfull sermon.”
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) English naval administrator and member of parliament
March 17, 1661
"Painful" here means "painstakingly written".
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“146. A good Example is the best Sermon.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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