 | James Wood - Bible - 1813 - 632 pages
...superstition, Rev. xi. 2. GENTLE, quiet, meek, and easy to be entreated, 1 These, ii. 7. Gentleness is opposed to harshness and severity, to pride and arrogance, to violence and oppression : God's gentleness, is bis grace, his goodness, and liia mercy, and favours proceeding therefrom, Psa.... | |
 | Laura Valcheret (fict. name.) - 1814 - 242 pages
...fawning assent of sycophants : it renounces no just right from fear ; It gives up no important truth from flattery ; it is indeed not only consistent with...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value : upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can, with advantage, be superinduced.'' pisedand... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flattery ; it is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, ljut it necessa'rily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...flattery. It is indeed not only confiftent with a firm mind, but it neceffatily requires a manly fpirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this folid ground only, the polifh of gentlenefs can with advantage be fuperinduced. It flands... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. ( It is indeed not only consistent...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. 'It stands... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pages
...fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 540 pages
...fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with...necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in^rder to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from llattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind,...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It isindeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pages
...fawn. . ing assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with...firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit ahd a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish... | |
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It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. ( It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid... 
