| John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...who writes : ' Mr. Law's precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the Gospel. His satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life,...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind he will soon kindle it to a flame.' Law's art as a portrait painter... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ;...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow... | |
| John Dennis - English literature - 1928 - 280 pages
...who writes : ' Mr. Law's precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the Gospel. His satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life,...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind he will soon kindle it to a flame.' Law's art as a portrait painter... | |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Libraries - 1913 - 782 pages
...book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life;...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 412 pages
...book of devotion.15 His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the Gospel; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ;...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a Philosopher must allow... | |
| 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 - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the Gospel; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of La Bruyere.' From the foregoing brief sketches of the leading English Nonjurors, it will be seen that... | |
| Society of Friends - 1892 - 1274 pages
...Gibbon says of it : "His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel ; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of hia portraits are not unworthy of LiBrnyeie. If he rinds a spark of piety in his reader's mind he will... | |
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