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" The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions,... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 220
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on ...

Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. 19 The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably tniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations, thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions,...
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Life and works of William Cowper, Volume 5

William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving,...few modes, and is to be felt, rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. c @ ˖ 6?oFm Oq Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication...
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Works, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified j Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...without passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to he felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving,...joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being withotit passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation arc ng" was formerly censured as not analogical ; we may...something, and would have told it, had it not been crossed Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 20

1842 - 796 pages
...piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Faith, invariably uniibrm, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving,...effusions, yet addressed to a being without passions, is con6ned to a few words, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Poetry loses its lustre and power,...
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The Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

John Wilson - 1842 - 428 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infidelity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined...
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The Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

John Wilson - 1842 - 422 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infidelity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving,...addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to * few modes, and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repentance, trembling in the presence of iho...
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