 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pagina’s
...a book, intituled, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester, which the critick ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement. his thirty-fourth year ; and was so worn... | |
 | 1823 - 616 pagina’s
...contemporaries : his life by Burnet cannot be too often read." CttALMERS. '" Burnet's Life of Rochester the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." DR. JOHNSON. A LETTER TO THE FUNDHOLDERS, containing a Plan for the Reduction of the National Debt;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pagina’s
...book, intituled, " Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester," which the critick ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement. He died July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 416 pagina’s
...Dr. Burnet, the account of this wonderful change is given to the world, " which," says Dr. Johnson, " the Critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher...for its arguments, and the saint for its piety."* Mr. Parsons's Funeral Sermon, which is commonly bound with it, places in a still more prominent point... | |
 | 1824 - 818 pagina’s
...omitted, especially as they are to be found in a work " which," Dr Johnson says, " the critic ougfat to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety ;" I mean, " Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester," by Bishop Bnrnet. Thejirst... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 802 pagina’s
...Dr. Burnet, the account of this wonderful change is given to the world, " which," says Dr. Johnson, " the Critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saiat for its piety."* Mr. Parsons's Funeral Sermon, which is commonly bound with it, places in a still... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1824 - 330 pagina’s
...Rochester, nothing could easily be added to the encomium of Dr. Johnson. " It is a work," says he, '' which the critic ought to read for its elegance, " the philosopher for its reasoning, and the saint " for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to " uffer him an abridgment."... | |
 | 1825 - 498 pagina’s
...popular. It is a work ' which (as Johnson said of Burnet's account of the conversion of Rochester), the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.' It foils the sceptic at his own weapons, and makes him feel that reason and philosophy are not for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 780 pagina’s
...popular. It is a work " which (as Johnson said of Burnet's account of the conversion of Rochester) the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." í t foils the sceptic at his own weapons, and makes him feel that reason and philosophy are not for... | |
 | 1825 - 494 pagina’s
...popular. It is a work ' which (as Johnson said of Burnet's account of the conversion of Rochester), the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.' It foils the sceptic at his own weapons, and makes him feel that reason and philosophy are not for... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
