 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...poetical powers, which he was most anxious to cultivate. Of these he speaks thus magnificently ; — "These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — - to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear, over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...(though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear, over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to be incomparable. These besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, whereso- • ever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...poetical powers, which he 'was most anxious to cultivate. Of these he speaks thus magnificently ; — "These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1848 - 432 pages
...poetical powers, which he was most anxious to cultivate. Of these he speaks thus magnificently ; — "These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in evsry nation ; and are of power, — to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...poetical powers, which he was most anxious to cultivate. Of these he speaks thus magnificently ; — " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, arc the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet...(though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in agréât people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...responsibility. He thus expresses, in his own stately majestic language, his own views on the subject : — " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though much abused) in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of the pulpit, to imbreed and cherish... | |
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These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
