 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...the plain account of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper he resumed the combat with Bishop Hoadley, the object of Whig idolatry, and Tory abhorrence ;...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts.. ..the heathen and the... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher mast allow, that he exposes, with equal severity and truth,...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — f . vine illumination... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher n:ust allow, that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of FLAVIA and MIRANDA he Jias admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and c 3 many many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the heathen and the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 552 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...to two very opposite imputations, that of being a Socinian'and that of being a Methodist. What, however, was really erroneous in his opinions has been... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 872 pages
...La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his Reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a Ilame ; and a Philosopher must allow that he exposes, with...severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the fitilh and practice of the Christian World. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda, he has admirably... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a Philosopher must allow that he exposes, with eqiial severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian World. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda, he has admirably described my two Aunts, the Heathen and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...the plain account of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, he resumed the combat with bishop Hoadley, the object of Whig idolatry and Tory abhorrence ;...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruycre. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind,...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...the plain account of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, he resumed the combat with bishop Hoadley, the object of Whig idolatry and Tory abhorrence ;...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
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Call', is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen... 
