 | William Ralph Inge - 1906 - 266 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,...not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon fan it into a flame ; and a philosopher must allow... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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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Call, is still read as a popular and powerful 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 the pen of... 
