 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pagina’s
...comprehension and eleyation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannoJLJbe amplified ; -Perfection cannot be improved . 140 The employments of pious meditation are... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 pagina’s
...and the elevation of bis fancy : but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved." All this is true as statement, but most mistaken as argument. The individual may receive information... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pagina’s
...this is rarely to be 1. Lives, I, 49-50. 94 DOCTOR JOHNSON hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." 1 And he proceeds to explain the simplicity and the beauty of true Christian piety, naming Faith, Thanksgiving,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pagina’s
...comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith,... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pagina’s
...of his art, the exhibition of religious doctrine itself, as is supposed in the following statement : Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. True : all perfection is implied in the name of GOD ; and so all the beauties and luxuries of spring... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pagina’s
...adornment, ornament; "sentiment" the content, the subject matter; "expression" the rhetorical form.) * "Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved." 10B Exactly the same ideas underlie the criticism of Paradise Lost: "The good and evil of Eternity... | |
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Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. 
