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... produced no models of a refined and polished eloquence . Their discourses abounded in cold divi- sions , metaphysical discussion , or loose and incoherent declamation . Among his con- temporaries , some preachers had distinguished ...
... produced no models of a refined and polished eloquence . Their discourses abounded in cold divi- sions , metaphysical discussion , or loose and incoherent declamation . Among his con- temporaries , some preachers had distinguished ...
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... produced a liberal collection , and closed the labours of the pulpit . Though his bodily constitution was not robust , yet he enjoyed a general state of good health , and , through habitual cheerfulness , temperance , and ease ...
... produced a liberal collection , and closed the labours of the pulpit . Though his bodily constitution was not robust , yet he enjoyed a general state of good health , and , through habitual cheerfulness , temperance , and ease ...
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... produce on human life . The most busy man , in the most active sphere , cannot be always occupied by business . Men of serious professions cannot always be on the stretch of serious thought . Neither can the most gay and flourishing ...
... produce on human life . The most busy man , in the most active sphere , cannot be always occupied by business . Men of serious professions cannot always be on the stretch of serious thought . Neither can the most gay and flourishing ...
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... produce the most distinguished efforts of eloquence , it must be necessary also to our relishing them with proper taste and feeling . On these general topics I shall dwell no longer ; but proceed di- rectly to the consideration of the ...
... produce the most distinguished efforts of eloquence , it must be necessary also to our relishing them with proper taste and feeling . On these general topics I shall dwell no longer ; but proceed di- rectly to the consideration of the ...
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... produce new beauties , and exhibit them in such a manner as strongly to impress the minds of others . Refined taste forms a good critic ; but genius is farther necessary to form the poet , or the orator . It is proper also to observe ...
... produce new beauties , and exhibit them in such a manner as strongly to impress the minds of others . Refined taste forms a good critic ; but genius is farther necessary to form the poet , or the orator . It is proper also to observe ...
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Page 446 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those Demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Page 458 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 181 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. "All they shall speak and say unto thee, 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?' "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 40 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 453 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 223 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 453 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 458 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God...
Page 40 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 219 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas, so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.