 | 1796 - 746 Seiten
...argument argument on topics of Itfs alfurdiij is fpecious and acute, his manner is lively! his ftyle forcible and clear ; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthufiafm, he might be ranked with the moft agreeable and ingenious writers of the tinvs. While the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 Seiten
...fcholar. His argument on topics of lefs abfurdity is fpecious and acute, his manner is lively, his ftyle forcible and clear; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthufiafm , he might be ranked with the moft agreeable and ingenious writers of the times. While the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 Seiten
...Scholar. His argument on topics of lefs abfurdity is fpecious and acute, his manner is lively, his ftyle forcible and clear ; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by cnthufiafm, » Mt Lift AND WRITINGS. ft thufiafm, he might be ranked with the moft agreeable and ingenious... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 684 Seiten
...toMr. Law as a wit and a scliolar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute ; his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not the vigour of his mind ( 170 LAW been clouded by enthusiasm; he might be ranked with the most agreeable... | |
 | William Law - 1818 - 152 Seiten
...and of his writings, by Gibbon, the celebrated historian ; of which the following is an extract : " His manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not the vigour of Ids mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious... | |
 | William Law - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...specious and acute ; his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and had not the vigor of his mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked...controversy was a fashionable theme, he entered the lists. He resumed the contest again with Bishop Hoadly, in which his Non-juring principles appear, though... | |
 | William Law - 1821 - 352 Seiten
...Law, as a wit and. a scholar. — His arguments on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute; his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear; and had not the vigour of his mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agree;iWe and ingenious... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 Seiten
...the way of looking at things which made Gibbon say of Law, the author of' The Serious Call,' that ' had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm,...most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times.' Bishop Butler's ' cool and reasonable concern ' for oneself, and that goodhumour which, according to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 Seiten
...liarn Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity i; •-•cious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not : rigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agrfti and ingenious writers... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...William Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear...was a fashionable theme, he entered the lists on the subjects of Christ's kingdom, and the authority of the priesthood : against the plain account of the... | |
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But these sallies of religious frenzy must not extinguish the praise which is due to Mr. William Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had... 
