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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 9
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Eepentance, and Supplication. — Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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Occasional Papers and Reviews

John Keble - 1877 - 584 pages
...supposed in the following statement : — "Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved." True : all perfection is implied in the Name of God ; and so all the beauties and luxuries of spring...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannoJLJbe amplified ; -Perfection cannot be improved . 140 The employments of pious meditation are...
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Six Essays on Johnson

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1843 - 1098 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved." All this is true as statement, but most mistaken as argument. The individual may receive information...
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The Theory of Poetry in England: Its Development in Doctrines and Ideas from ...

Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy...
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