 | James Boswell - 1799 - 680 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety...reader's mind he will soon kindle it to a flame.' Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 21. became capable of rational inquiry'.' From this time forward religion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety...reader's mind he will soon kindle it to a flame.' Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 21. became capable of rational inquiry'.' From this time forward religion... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts.. ..the heathen and the... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 páginas
...the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La En-mere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind,...will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher mast allow, that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not umVorthy of the prri of LA BRUYERE. If he finds a spark of piety in his...will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher n:ust allow, that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the... | |
 | Richard Tighe - 1813 - 144 páginas
...is sharp, but is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety...soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must 37 allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 558 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere *. If he finds a spark of piety...between the faith and practice of the Christian world." As a theologian, Law held certain tenets peculiar to himself which, either from being misunderstood,... | |
 | 1815 - 558 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere *. If he finds a spark of piety...between the faith and practice of the Christian world." As a theologian, Law held certain tenets peculiar to himself which, either from being misunderstood,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1815 - 878 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety...between the faith and practice of the Christian World. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda, he has admirably described my two Aunts, the Heathen and the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 552 páginas
...sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere *. If he finds a spark of piety...kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice... | |
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Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of... 
