Reason and Faith, and Other Miscellanies of Henry RogersCrosby, Nichols, and Company, 1853 - 458 oldal |
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... truth to the minds of men ; and , taken in connection with other qualities , which neither Taylor nor Fuller possessed , namely , method and taste , will do more to give books permanent power and popularity , than even the very truths ...
... truth to the minds of men ; and , taken in connection with other qualities , which neither Taylor nor Fuller possessed , namely , method and taste , will do more to give books permanent power and popularity , than even the very truths ...
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Henry Rogers. 99 that far greater genius , we have the combination of solid truth , beautiful imagery , and graceful expression ; - where we know not which most to admire , the value of the gem , the lustre of the polish , or the ...
Henry Rogers. 99 that far greater genius , we have the combination of solid truth , beautiful imagery , and graceful expression ; - where we know not which most to admire , the value of the gem , the lustre of the polish , or the ...
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... truth himself , nor delivers it for truth to others ; so that the worst that can be said of him on that score is , that he is content to merge his historic character in that of a retailer of amusing oddities . But that he is careless in ...
... truth himself , nor delivers it for truth to others ; so that the worst that can be said of him on that score is , that he is content to merge his historic character in that of a retailer of amusing oddities . But that he is careless in ...
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... truths which were then but ill understood , and of rights which had been shamefully violated . Perhaps the most ... Truth , or the True State of the Primitive Church , by a Humble Moderator . " This work deserved the character of ...
... truths which were then but ill understood , and of rights which had been shamefully violated . Perhaps the most ... Truth , or the True State of the Primitive Church , by a Humble Moderator . " This work deserved the character of ...
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... Truth . " This provoked our satirist , who replied in a pamphlet entitled , " Mr. Smirke , or the Divine in Mode . " He here fits his antagonist with a character out of Etherege's " Man of Mode , " as he had before fitted Parker with ...
... Truth . " This provoked our satirist , who replied in a pamphlet entitled , " Mr. Smirke , or the Divine in Mode . " He here fits his antagonist with a character out of Etherege's " Man of Mode , " as he had before fitted Parker with ...
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380. oldal - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
12. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
313. oldal - There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
420. oldal - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
6. oldal - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
12. oldal - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
78. oldal - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
85. oldal - There is indeed an exception, when any great genius thinks it worth his while to expose a foolish piece ; so we still read Marvell's answer to Parker * with pleasure, though the book it answers be sunk long ago...
219. oldal - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
83. oldal - HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land As but the off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell, — This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.