 ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 100by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich Avilh all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,"" &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge ; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of fc the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly tc up,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify " the lips of whom he-pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and know^ ledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lip* of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...by devout prayers to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading,. * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowiedge, and sends out his seraphim, with the haiiowe'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into... | |
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