 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pages
..." I writ it with a particular view to your satisfaction." — Phillimore's Lyttelton, vol. ip 307. never been able to fabricate a specious answer. This...pleasure in a letter which deserves to be inserted. " I have read your religious treatise with infinite pleasure and satisfaction. The style is fine and... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1890 - 124 pages
..." Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul," is still current. Gruff old Dr. Johnson called it " a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer." Lyttelton has most impressively argued that Paul's conversion cannot be explained as due to imposture... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1890 - 642 pages
...contained In the comprehensive volume called 1 Christian Evidences,' roy. 8vo. Lond. Bohn. 1850, 10s. ' A treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a ttpeclojs answer.'— Dr. Johnson. Attached to many edition» of Gilbert West on the Resurrection.... | |
 | John Byrom - 1895 - 384 pages
...Leslie Stephen (History of English Thought, &c., i. 150) writes, that it is "described by Johnson as 'a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' The author professes to show that Paul's conversion was alone a sufficient demonstration of the divine... | |
 | 1895 - 370 pages
...Leslie Stephen (History of English Thought, &c., i. 150) writes, that it is "described by Johnson as 'a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' The author professes to show that Paul's conversion was alone a sufficient demonstration of the divine... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...1747 he published his Dissertation on the Conversion of St. Paul, ' a treatise,' says Dr. Johnson, 'to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' He made himself conspicuous in parliament as an opponent of Walpole, and after the fall of that minister... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 pages
...1747 he published his Diesertation on the Conversion of St. Paul, ' a treatise,' says Dr. Johnson, ' to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' He made himself conspicuous in parliament as an opponent of Walpole, and after the fall of that minister... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747) by Observations on tlte Conversion of St. Paid", a treatise to which infidelity has never been able...pleasure in a letter which deserves to be inserted : ' I have read your religious treatise with infinite pleasure and satisfaction. The style is fine... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 pages
...1747 he published his Dtssertation on the Conversion of St. Paul, ' a treatise,' says Dr. Johnsou, ' to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.' He made himself conspicuous in parliament as an opponent of Walpole, and after the fall of that minister... | |
 | Lilian Dickins, Mary Stanton - 1910 - 534 pages
...published his " Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul " — " a treatise," says Dr. Johnson, " to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer." Though little of his own literary work rises above mediocrity, we have good evidence that George Lyttelton... | |
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... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never... 
