 | Lindley Murray - 1868 - 384 lehte
...useful and pleasing. Whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...without learning, or at least, wishing to be better." The virtue of this good man eminently appeared, in the happy state of his mind, under great pains and... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 lehte
...the truth is that whatever he took in hand was by his incessant solicitude for souls converted into theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...his works ; under his direction it may be truly said theologia philosophic/, ancillatur, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction ; it is difficult... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 lehte
...WATTS.—The truth is that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...his works. Under his direction it may be truly said Theologiir. Philosophia ancillatur; philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction. It is difficult... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 lehte
...diffused over his works: under his direction it may be truly said, Theologiee Philosophic/, ancillatur, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction...without learning, or at least wishing, to be better. The attention is caught by indirect instruction, and he that sat down only to reason is on a sudden... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1898 - 232 lehte
...his philosophic and literary productions bear the same stamp, so that Dr. Johnson writes of them, " It is difficult to read a page without learning or at least wishing to be better." "He that sat down to reason is on a sudden compelled to pray." Simon Browne, c. 1680-1732.— Author... | |
 | William Budd Bodine - 1907 - 648 lehte
...the truth is, that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...his works; under his direction it may be truly said, Theologiae Philosophic, ancillatur, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction. It is difficult... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 lehte
...the truth is, that whatever he took in hand, was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...works : under his direction it may be truly said, Theologiae Philosophiae ancillatur; philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction; it is difficult... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1911 - 750 lehte
...the truth is, that whatever he took in hand, was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...works : under his direction it may be truly said, Theologiac Philosophiae ancillatur; philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction ; it is difficult... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 lehte
...Johnson remark, "Whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is...his works: under his direction it may be truly said, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction; it is difficult to read a page without learning,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 lehte
..."done better what no man has done well" (in, 310). But Watts's piety penetrated whatever he touched ("As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over his works" [in, 309]), so that Johnson's focus in this life does not linger on the works as literary creations,... | |
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As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over his works : under his direction it may be truly said, Theologies Philosophia ancillatur, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction : it is difficult to read a page without learning, or... 
