 | 1831 - 576 pages
...quaintly. ' Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in ' horsetails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but ' being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and ' snares.' Yet it is making snares of this description, which Newton has deliberately recommended ! If the religious... | |
 | 1814 - 558 pages
...to illicit what was true, laid him very open to witty mistake and misrepresentation. The aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly...intended to retort the indignity thrown upon the comic •tage by the sophists, in restraining its exhibitions ; and that the character of Socrates (however... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...to illicit what wui true, laid him very open to witty mistake and misrepresentation. The aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly...we cannot see that personality in the Clouds which aome have ascribed to it. It appears to us that the play was principally intended to retort the indignity... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...to illicit what was true, laid him very open to witty mistake and misrepresentation. The aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly...out one by one, serve only for springes and snares." VVe have the greatest veneration for the name of Socrates ; but we cannot see that personality in the... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
..." Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in /torses' tails, concur in one root ot beauty and strength ; but, being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and snare?." Dr. Harrington wrole a song, begiumng — " Ali ! how Sophia ?" which unquestionably sounds... | |
 | 1822 - 590 pages
..." Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horses' tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but, being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and snares. MR. DUNDAS, afterwards Lord Melville, in one of his speeches, proposed to reduce the Americans by starvation,... | |
 | 1830 - 164 pages
...Master * " Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horsetails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares." Should not they, who interpret the very mystical book of the Revelations, take care to make their interpretation... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 446 pages
...scripture (says Dr. Donne) like hairs in horses' tails, concur in one rootof beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares." The second I transcribe from the preface to Lightfoot's works. " Inspired writings are an inestimable... | |
 | David Wilkie - 1837 - 320 pages
..." sentences in Scripture, like hair in horses' -tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out one by one serve only for springes and snares." I believe, however, that there is little cause to fear that the crude ideas and shortsighted dogmas... | |
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Donne), like hairs in horse-tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares. 
