 | James M. Hewins - Church music - 1856 - 194 pages
...with the oriental forms of speech. 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... | |
 | James Orange - Bible - 1858 - 372 pages
...any 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 doth a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite forms of speech... | |
 | Methodist preachers - 1866 - 332 pages
...whence it must be dug." " There is something," says Mr. Addison, " so pathetic in its diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. If anyone," continues he, " would judge of the beauties of poetry that are to be met with in the Divine... | |
 | James Keith (writer on the Bible) - 1868 - 512 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1870 - 144 pages
...wisdom declare that you migh t read the Bible, and even he,ar it read by a Protestant. Would not your conscience receive a most sudden and miraculous illumination...allusions, are wrought into our daily speech. Indeed, to be 6* ignorant of the English Bible is to be ignorant of the English tongue. To know the Bible is to know... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - Pastoral theology - 1873 - 436 pages
...received innumerable improvements from an infusion of Hebraisms, derived out of the practical passages in Holy Writ. They warm and animate our language, give...mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us. How cold and dead is a prayer composed in the most elegant form of speech, when it is not heightened... | |
 | Judaism - 1873 - 484 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1883 - 708 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 withiu' us. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant and polite... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1890 - 612 pages
...to be met with in our own tongue. There is something so pathetick in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame and makes our hearts burn within us. — Spectator, No. 405. Here we have no difficulty in perceiving that the writer was embracing a whole... | |
 | 1892 - 140 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. ... If any one would judge of the beauties of poetry that are to be met with in the Divine writings,... | |
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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. 
