 | 1809 - 612 strani
...will hazard the assertion, that no man ever did, nor ever will become truly eloquent, without being » constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." In his last sickness ; when near hi» end, and when he had just expressed his apprehension and belief... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 strani
...character he was not less distinguished. His estimation of the word of God was great. " No man," he said, " ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without...reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and simplicity of its language." PRAYING IN LATIN. The following anecdote is related of Svend, a Danish... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 554 strani
...origin of the Scriptures was most deeply impressed on his mind by their contents. " No man," said he, " ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without...reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and simplicity of its language." To a mind, like his, it was impossible, that the dictates of a book, thus... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 546 strani
...origin of the Scriptures was most deeply impressed on his mind by their contents. " No man," said he, " ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without...reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and simplicity of its language." To a mind, like his, it was impossible, that the dictates of a book, thus... | |
 | 1823 - 736 strani
...origin of the Scriptures was most deeply impressed on his mind by their contents. ' No man,' «aid he, ' ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without...a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of thp purity and sim- her testimony of plicity of its language.' To a mind like his, it was impossible... | |
 | 1829 - 704 strani
...them with their own language in its purity. ' I will hazard the assertion, that no man ever did, nor ever will become truly eloquent, without being a constant...admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.' In his last sickness, when near his end, and when he had just expressed his apprehension and belief... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 816 strani
...a principal instrument of making them acquainted with their own language in its purity. He said, " I will hazard the assertion, that no man ever did...admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." He recommended the teaching of the assembly's catechism; not perhaps because he was perfectly satisfied... | |
 | Joseph Appleton Barrett, Emily Maria Barrett - 1837 - 126 strani
...eloquence. "I will hazard the assertion," said the honorable Fisher Ames, " that no man ever did, nor ever will, become truly eloquent without being a constant...admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." Secondly, the origin of the Bible is such, as renders it worthy of peculiar regard. It has a heavenly... | |
 | 1813 - 1404 strani
...character he was not less distinguished. His estimation of the word of God was great " No man," he said, " ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without...reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and simplicity of its language." PRAYING IN LATIN. The following anecdote is related of Svend, a Danish... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 strani
...clown to his death in 1808. He was a man of warm devotional feelings, and is reported to have said, ' I will hazard the assertion that no man ever did or...admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.' We should have said more of Mr. Ames on this occasion, had we not given an article in a former Number... | |
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I will hazard the assertion, that no man ever did, or ever will, become truly eloquent, without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. 
