| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 452 pages
...disputations which were held six times a week at Lincoln College in Oxford. I could not avoid acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing : and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when meij have hedged me in, by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 562 pages
...them, they were of singular use to the moderator. " I could not avoid," he says, " acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing ; and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have hedged me in by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 560 pages
...them, they were of singular use to the moderator. " I could not avoid," he says, " acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing ; and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have hedged me in by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...them, the.) were of singular use to the moderator. " I could not avoid," he says, "acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing; and especially...pointing out well-covered and plausible fallacies. I bare since found abundant reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have... | |
| Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 516 pages
...them, they were of singular use to the moderator. " I could not avoid," he says, " acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing; and especially...pointing out well-covered and plausible fallacies. 1 have since found abundant reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have... | |
| Henry Moore - Clergy - 1826 - 338 pages
...disputations which were held six times a week at Lincoln College in Oxford. I could not avoid acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing ; and especially...reason to praise God 'for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have hedged me in, by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1839 - 810 pages
...which were held six times a week at Lincoln College, in Oxford. I could not avoid acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing; and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art By this, when men have hedged me in by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1854 - 428 pages
...them, they were of singular use to the moderator. ' I could not avoid,' he says, 'acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing, and especially in discerning and pointing out well-covereaT and plausible fallacies. I have since found abundant reason to praise God for giving... | |
| John Wesley - 1856 - 812 pages
...which were held six times a week at Lincoln College, in Oxford. I could not avoid acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing ; and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have hedged me in by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
| James William Gilbart - 1857 - 424 pages
...them, they were of singular use to the moderator. ' I could not avoid,' he says, 'acquiring hereby some degree of expertness in arguing, and especially...reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this, when men have hedged me in by what they called demonstrations, I have been many times able... | |
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