 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical Jevotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, «nd Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being, Omnipotence cannot be exalt* ed; infinity cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...Christians from metrical devotion;" (since " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in* the name of the Supreme Being; — Omnipotence...cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved;") — admitting " all that pious verse can do is to help the memory, and delight the ear;" yet as for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...Whatever is grdat, desirable, or tremeit .'.••;•"•'•"!-•.• T2 dous, dous, is comprised in the name of. the .Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...hoped by christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 504 pages
...subject of sacred poetry, no less eminent for the acumen of his mind than the piety of his heart, " Omnipotence cannot be exalted; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved." If the noblest strains of poetry and subliinest images of painting be thus defective, they must yield... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...Johnson, with majestic energy, remarks, that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprized in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved." Of this Smart seems to have been aware, although amhition and interest, neither illaudable in his circumstances,... | |
 | William Smith - Anglican Communion - 1814 - 330 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...Johnson, with majestic energy, remarks, that " whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprized in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved." Of this Smart seems to have been aware, although ambition and interest, neither illaudable in his circumstances,... | |
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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. 
