 There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 276by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 400 pages
...de" livered rhetorically, many expressions merely " tropical, and therefore many things to be ta" ken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be " called...expression : " I -could be content {says he) to be nothing al" most to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour " at the last." He has little acquaintance with the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 548 pages
...secnre himself from rigorons examination, by alledging, that "many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many...in. a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called nnt3 the rigid test of reason." The first glance npon his book will indeed discover examples of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 476 pages
...secure himself from rigorous examination, .by alleging, that " many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many...rigid test of reason." The first glance upon his book wifl indeed discover examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " I could be content, (says... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...secure himself from rigorous examination, by alleging, that " many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many...be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Savi• Dighy's Letter to Browne, prefixed to the Religio Medici, fol. edit. our at the last." He has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...secure himself from rigorous examination, by alleging, that" many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many...he, "to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjov mv Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the acuteness of Browne, who suspects... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...secure himself from rigorous examination, by alleging, that " many things are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many...examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " 1 could be content (says he) to he nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense,...and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason. Lastly, all that is contained therein, is in submission unto maturer discernments ; and as I have declared,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense,...and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason. Lastly, all that is contained therein, is in submission unto maturer discernments ; and, as I have... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense,...and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason. Lastly, all that is contained therein, is in submission unto maturer discernments ; and as I have declared,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and thurefore many things to be token in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...unto the rigid test of reason." The first glance upon this book will indeed discover examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " i could be content... | |
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