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" Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements, from that infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the poetical passages in, holy writ. "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 53
1838
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The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle ..., Volume 1

Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...Our language has received iunumerahle elegancies and improvements, from the infusion of Hehraisms, which are derived to it out of the poetical passages...expressions, warm and animate *our language, and convey our thonghts in more ardent and intense phrases, than any that are to he met with in our own tongne. There...
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An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement, and an ...

William Newcome - 1809 - 418 pages
...guage has received innumerable elegancies and im" provements from that infusion of Hebraisms which fc are derived to it out of the poetical passages in holy *' writ. They give a force and energy to our expres" sions, warm and animate our language, and convey " our thoughts in more ardent and intense...
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An Attempt Towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement, and an ...

William Newcome - 1809 - 424 pages
...received innumerable elegancies and im" provements from that infusion of Hebraisms which " are derived tp it out of the poetical passages in holy " writ. They give a force and energy to our expres** sions, warm and animate our language, and convey " our thoughts in more ardent and intense...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...that the Hebrew idioms run into the English tongue with a particular grace and beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements,...in, holy writ. They give a force and energy to our expression, warm and animate our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intense phrases,...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 15

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...it out of the • poetical paiTages in holy writ. They give a force and energy to our expreiïions, warm and animate our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intenfe phrafes than any that are to be met with in our own tongue. There is iomethmg fo pathetic in...
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The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 5

Isaac Watts - 1813 - 622 pages
...improvements from tbat infusion of hebraisms, which arc derived to it out of the poetical passages of holy writ ; they give a force and energy to our expressions,...our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent und intent phrases, than any that are to be met with in our own tongue ; there is something so pathetic...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 12

1816 - 764 pages
...unbended or htta/e, The found isftilf a comment to the fenfe. Ro/cam. t. Vehement; ardent.— Hebraifms warm and animate our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intenfe phrafes. Addifoa. 3. 'Kept on the ftretch ; anxioufly attentive. — But in difparity The one...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 12

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...or intenfe, The found is (till a comment to the fenfe. Ha/com. t. Vehement ; ardent. — Hebraifms warm and animate our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intenfe phrafes. Addijon, 3. Kept on the ftretch ; anxioufly attentive.— , ; But in difparity The...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 15

1823 - 886 pages
...luckily, that the Hebrew idioms run into the English tongue with a peculiar grace and beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms, which arc derived to it out of the poetical passages in holy writ. They give a force and energy to our expressions,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

1824 - 268 pages
...that the Hebrew idioms run into the English tongue with a particular grace and beauty. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements...in holy writ. They give a force and energy to our expression, warm and animate our language, and convey our thoughts in more ardent and intense phrases,...
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