 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...a book intituled, Some Passages of the Life and Dead %f John Earl of Rochester ; which the critick ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It^were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement. •:,.:: -_f;-,j He died July 26, 1680,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 422 pàgines
...Burnet in a book, intituled, Some passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ; which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Johnson's Life of Rochester, vol. ir, p. 6, 12mo. ject ; so it is very strongly confirmed by those... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 434 pàgines
...published Some Passages of the Life and. Death of John Earl of Rochester; a book, says Dt. Johnson, "which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Lives of the Poets. An abstract from the bishop's remarks was printed for popular perusal, and called... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pàgines
...of Rochester." — Of this work Dr Johnson passes the following high encomium. " It is a book, which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher...for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to orler him an abridgment*." 7. The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, 1682. 8.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pàgines
...Rochester."— Of this work Dr Johnson passes the following high (encomium. ' " It is a- book, which the critip ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to pffer him ar1 abridgment*." 7. The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, 1682,... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 pàgines
...book mentioned by the bishop, Dr. Johnson pronounces the following eulogium: that it is one ' which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher...for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgment.' Life of Rochester. Lord Rochester died July... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pàgines
...to Hurnet's Life of that nobleman, " A book, which" Dr. Johnson says " the critic ought to read tor its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety ." Sec Johnson's Life of Rochester. " He gave likewise a " strict^charge to those persons, in whose... | |
 | 1825 - 776 pàgines
...to it and the world, than " to call the attention of the public to the mischievous tendency of such opinions." — " To detect, therefore, the fallacies,...him feel that reason and philosophy are not for him, butagainst him, in the great question of natural and revealed religion. Nor was its success disproportionate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pàgines
...by Burnet in a book, entituled, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester, which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher...for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to ofter him an abridgment. He died July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
 | 1810 - 612 pàgines
...passages of the Life and Death of John, earl of Rochester ;" " a book," which, as Dr. John, son says, " the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Murray's Poieer of Religion. RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATIONS. ON THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Continued from page... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
