 | Charles Burton - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...for, 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 that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear; and for these purposes it may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cum tot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprized in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...« The employments of pious meditation are faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the supreme being. Omnipotence cannot...perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditatiou are faith, thanksgiving1, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...hoped by christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the supreme being. Omnipotence cannot...perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditatiou are faitb, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...we believe, in his Life of Waller. — " Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved," We do not question this position ; but it is, surely, within the competence of poetry to preserve,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...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... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...we believe, in his Life of Waller. — " Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot...cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved." We do not question this position ; but it is, surely, within the competence of poetry to preserve,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...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. Fatth, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy... | |
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Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. 
