Of the Light of Nature: A DiscourseT. Constable, 1857 - 298 pages |
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Page xxvii
... style is admirable for its perspicuity , force , and elegance ; and scarcely any either of the words or forms of expression , ' turns of phrase , ' as Hallam calls them , have , through the mutations of language during two centuries ...
... style is admirable for its perspicuity , force , and elegance ; and scarcely any either of the words or forms of expression , ' turns of phrase , ' as Hallam calls them , have , through the mutations of language during two centuries ...
Page xxxii
... style of Culverwel can hardly be praised for its singularity , in an age which already possessed the master- pieces of Bacon and Hooker , and was soon to number the works of Hobbes among the models of philosophical English prose . Here ...
... style of Culverwel can hardly be praised for its singularity , in an age which already possessed the master- pieces of Bacon and Hooker , and was soon to number the works of Hobbes among the models of philosophical English prose . Here ...
Page xl
... style , alone distinguish his treatise from the Eternal and Immutable Morality , which was , however , written a good many years later . Bearing this somewhat antiquarian character of Culverwel's ethics in view , the following points ...
... style , alone distinguish his treatise from the Eternal and Immutable Morality , which was , however , written a good many years later . Bearing this somewhat antiquarian character of Culverwel's ethics in view , the following points ...
Page xli
... style of Grotius , the eloquent testi- monies of heathen writers , Christian fathers , and leading schoolmen are amassed to confirm this fundamental prin- ciple ; and the author waxes especially indignant against those who would shut up ...
... style of Grotius , the eloquent testi- monies of heathen writers , Christian fathers , and leading schoolmen are amassed to confirm this fundamental prin- ciple ; and the author waxes especially indignant against those who would shut up ...
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... style of representation would imply ; for upon the highest authority , unbelief is not the negation , but the rejection of light . The universal attain- ableness of Christian faith , as conditioned by humility and prayer , a point not ...
... style of representation would imply ; for upon the highest authority , unbelief is not the negation , but the rejection of light . The universal attain- ableness of Christian faith , as conditioned by humility and prayer , a point not ...
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