 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.  Poetics, an Essay on Poetry - Page 54by Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 294 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 lehte
...devotion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. ' The employments of pious meditation are faith, thankigiving, repentance, and fupplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 lehte
...deiwoiion. Whatever is great, defireable., or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | William Hodson - 1780 - 124 lehte
...ohfcrves, whatever is great, defirablc, or tremendous, is comprifej in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved, Prefaces to the Englifh Poets. —Life of Waller, rrtoft impoffible, however they may hold their place... | |
 | 1780 - 596 lehte
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. ' The employments of pious meditation are 'Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 lehte
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirous, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. OMNIPOTENCE cannot be exalted. INFINITY cannot be amplified, PERFECTION cannot be improved. Pino. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art, fhould be funk in general... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 lehte
...tion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 lehte
...tion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 lehte
...Whatever is great, defireable, or treT 1 mendous, mendous, is comprifed in the name of the Suprem* Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 lehte
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable or tremendous, is compriied in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thankfgiving, repentance and fupplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 lehte
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable, or tremendous, is compriled in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
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