 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Cre'at-or, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...is-not piety, but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...not piety, -but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God j.' Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...is not piety, but the •otives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot fce poeticaL Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...is not piety, 'but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | William Smith - Anglican Communion - 1814 - 330 pages
...motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative poetry, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore, the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...religion, in opposition to many authorities, has the merit of originality, and forcible reasoning. " Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...is not piety, but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...disputation is not piety, but the motives to piety; that of the description is not God, but the works of God. Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already... | |
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Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator and plead the merits of his Redeemer is already in a higher state than poetry can confer. 
