 | Great Britain - 1710 - 488 pages
...Reafon. All theOtr -jeftions which he can form, are laid open and difperfed, before he ufes the leaft Vehemence in his Sermon $ but when he thinks he has your Head,' he very foon wins your Heart ^ and never pretends to (how the Beauty of Holinefs, 'till he hath convinced you... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1712 - 418 pages
...Reafon. AH the Objections which 'he can form, are laid open and' oifpeiTed, before he ules the leaft Vehemence in his Sermon ; but when he thinks he has your Head, he very foon wins your Heart ; and never pretends to (how the Beauty of Holinefs, 'till he hath convinced you... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - Booksellers' catalogs - 1715 - 330 pages
...All the Objections.. * which he can form are laid open and dif« per fed, before he nfes the leaft Vehemence * in his Sermon: but when he thinks he has 'your Head, be very foon wins youc Heart; •••' « d < and never pretends to fhow the Beauty of ' Holinefs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...: he never attempts your passions, until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form, are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...very soon wins your heart ; and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness, until he has convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of our... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 342 pages
...form are laid open and xlispersed, before he uses the least vehemence in hi* sermon ; but when lie thinks he has your head, he Very soon wins your heart; and never pretends te show the beauty of holiness., until he hath convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...skill : he never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he hath convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of our clergymen be thus careful to... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can furm are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least...he very soon wins your heart; and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness, until he hath convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of our... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...chapel of Bridewell Hospital, where he was twenty years minister and preacher. the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed, before he uses...and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, until he hath convinced you of the truth of it. Would every one of our clergymen be thus careful to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 536 pages
...when he presented him to the upper house of convocation, as prolocutor, styles him '* Vir in nullo literarum genere hospes, in plerisque artibus et studiis...holiness, till he has convinced you of the truth of it."—In his letters to Pope, &c. bishop Atterbury appears in a pleasing light, both as a writer and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 538 pages
...has so soft and graceful a behaviour, that it must attract your attention. His person," contiI nues this author, " it is to be confessed, is no small...his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, be very soon wins your heart, and never pretends to shew the beauty of holiness, till he has convinced... | |
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This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when... 
