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" Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed... "
The Southern Review - Page 306
1830
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The Christian Observer, Volume 13

Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...and refluxes of man's thoughts from within j — all these things to paint out and describe, teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not look so much upon Truth herself except they see her elegantly' dressed : that whereas the paths of...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe, teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe, teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...within; all these things, with a solid, and treatable smoothness, to paiut out and describe. Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...within; all these things, with a solid. and treatable smoothness, to paint out and describe. Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe. Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe, teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...within — all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out, and describe : teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...within; all these tiiings with a solid and tractable smoothness to point out and describe, teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...upon truth herself, unless they .see her elegantly drest; that whereas the pathes of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe. Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through...life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they...
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