 | 1831 - 576 sivua
...quaintly. ' Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in ' horsetails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but ' being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and ' snares.' Yet it is making snares of this description, which Newton has deliberately recommended ! If the religious... | |
 | 1814 - 558 sivua
...aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly be applied to the Socratici sermones: " sentences in scripture," says he, " like hairs in...intended to retort the indignity thrown upon the comic •tage by the sophists, in restraining its exhibitions ; and that the character of Socrates (however... | |
 | 1814 - 556 sivua
...aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly be applied to the Socratici sermones: " sentences in scripture," says he, " like hairs in...we cannot see that personality in the Clouds which aome have ascribed to it. It appears to us that the play was principally intended to retort the indignity... | |
 | 1814 - 570 sivua
...aphorism of Donne respecting scriptural texts may not unaptly be applied to the Socratici sermones: " sentences in scripture," says he, " like hairs in...out one by one, serve only for springes and snares." VVe have the greatest veneration for the name of Socrates ; but we cannot see that personality in the... | |
 | 1821 - 488 sivua
..." Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in /torses' tails, concur in one root ot beauty and strength ; but, being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and snare?." Dr. Harrington wrole a song, begiumng — " Ali ! how Sophia ?" which unquestionably sounds... | |
 | 1822 - 590 sivua
..." Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horses' tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but, being plucked out one by one, serve only for springes and snares. MR. DUNDAS, afterwards Lord Melville, in one of his speeches, proposed to reduce the Americans by starvation,... | |
 | 1830 - 164 sivua
...Master * " Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horsetails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares." Should not they, who interpret the very mystical book of the Revelations, take care to make their interpretation... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 446 sivua
...scripture (says Dr. Donne) like hairs in horses' tails, concur in one rootof beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares." The second I transcribe from the preface to Lightfoot's works. " Inspired writings are an inestimable... | |
 | David Wilkie - 1837 - 320 sivua
..." sentences in Scripture, like hair in horses' -tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out one by one serve only for springes and snares." I believe, however, that there is little cause to fear that the crude ideas and shortsighted dogmas... | |
 | 1851 - 778 sivua
...quotation:— " Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horses' tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength, but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares." The practice of garbling quotations, to suit a particular purpose, cannot be too strongly reprehended.... | |
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Donne), like hairs in horse-tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares. 
