 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination. Asa teacher of \visJuin, hemay.be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in the enthusiastick... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not...neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely theproduct of imagination. As a teacher of wisdom he may be confidently...neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet bis exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not...confidently followed. His religion has nothing in the enthusiastick or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical'; his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness." — " As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed....enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weak-. ly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not...neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is diffiv cult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination....confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastick or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical ; his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...goodness ; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness." — " As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitions ; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...with so much fidelity that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination*." Dr. JOHNSON here characterises the humour of ADDISON with singular acuteness of thought and felicity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not...is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
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His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument,... 
