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" There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Page 65
by American Institute of Instruction - 1870
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The Obligations of the World to the Bible: A Series of Lectures to Young Men

Gardiner Spring - Bible - 1839 - 432 pages
...infusion of Hebraisms, derived out of the practical passsages in holy writ. They warm and ani mate our language, give it force and energy, and convey...mind in a flame and makes our hearts burn within us." Nor has it been at all improved by American Philologists. Was it too much for a learned Commentator...
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The chart and scale of truth, by which to find the cause of error

Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pages
...to be met with, in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. If any one should judge of the beauties of poetry, which are to be met with in the divine writings,...
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The Obligations of the World to the Bible: A Series of Lectures to Young Men

Gardiner Spring - Bible - 1846 - 336 pages
...received innumerable improvements from an infusion of Hebraisms, derived out of the poetical passages in holy writ. They warm and animate our language, give...mind in a flame and makes our hearts burn within us." Nor has it been at all improved by American philologists. Was it too much for a learned commentator...
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The Bible a Classic: A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered at the Third Annual ...

Samuel Sterling Sherman - Baccalaureate addresses - 1850 - 40 pages
...form. "There is," says Addison, "a certain coldness in the phrases of European languages, compared with oriental forms of speech. The English tongue has received...in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us." HHh-'-'-*^"'-^ Suppose we could blot out all these influences, and cancel the debt our language owes...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 7-8

Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. .How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed m the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction^that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of dietion, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1854 - 474 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...are to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech,...
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