 Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action will look with veneration on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 47edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - Hymns - 1924 - 442 pages
...Non-Conformity." And further — these are the Great Lexicographer's words for the modern critic — "Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action will look with veneration on the man." Isaac Watts 's hymns have stood severer tests than that of light ridicule. Watts displays at... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...his life of this excellent man, " he never wrote but for a good purpose " ; and again, " every one acquainted with the common principles of human action...who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year." The more we examine the structure and significance... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man acquainted with the common principles of...is, at one time, combating Locke, and at another, making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Religion - 2001 - 580 pages
...of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human nature, will look with veneration on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another, making a catechism for children in their fourth year, A voluntary descent from the dignity of science... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 pages
...accord to him the veneration and the panegyric awarded by Dr. Jbhnson to Dr. Watts, when he says, ' Every man, acquainted with the common principles of...who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 498 pages
...wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of lifo. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of...with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combatting Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year.' Others have... | |
 | Geology - 1830 - 470 pages
...acquainted with the common principles of human nature, (says Dr. Johnson in his life of Dr. Watts,) will look with veneration on the •writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making ac atechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent *See the obituary notice... | |
 | Books - 1783 - 734 pages
...amiable perfon, that " every man, acquainted with the common principles cf human action, will loolc with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechifm for children in their fourth year." NOVEL. Art. 30- Tben'tdore ; tranflated from... | |
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