... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such... The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated - Page 629by William Warburton - 1837 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Richardson - English language - 1839 - 928 pages
...-St'ExcE. out to confirm the cause." — •«UCiTlY. Wilson. " True eloquence I find to he none, but ihe serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is fully possest wiih a fervent desire to know good things, itij »iih the dearest charity to infuse the Viioiiledge... | |
| Convers Francis - Indians of North America - 1840 - 384 pages
...and style are concerned, may be fitly described in the language of Milton, who says, " True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse * Mather gives us what I suppose to have been a part of one of Eliot's sermons on the passage, " Our... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1841 - 602 pages
..." Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur," or, as Milton quaintly but forcibly expresses it: " Whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and witn the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others; when such a man would speak,... | |
| 1841 - 570 pages
...cause he pleads. Milton, in a passage a part of which has been cited above, says, " true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth " — or more properly, what the speaker believes to be the truth. This sentence ought to be engraved... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue, yet true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1843 - 300 pages
...— Verbaque provigam rem non invita sequentur. Or, as Milton has admirably said — " True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love...the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them to others, WHEN SUCH A MAN WOULD SPEAK, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about... | |
| Theology - 1845 - 632 pages
...spirit which stirs within, is Indeed the real secret Of all eloquence. " True eloquence," says Milton, " I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...infuse the knowledge of them into others ; — when Buch a man would speak, his words like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about liim at command,... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1836 - 386 pages
...style are concerned, may be fitly described in the language xof Milton, who says, " True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse * Mather gives us what I suppose to have been a part of one of Eliot's sermons on the passage, " Our... | |
| Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...hearers. Volumes of homiletics are compressed into that hackneyed saying of John Milton : " True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love...soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know 1 Oalcrie des Peintres, le plus celdbres : Vie de Paul Veronese, p. 2. 1 Thoughts on Eloquence and... | |
| Charles Bridges - Pastoral theology - 1844 - 576 pages
...provisam rem non invita sequuntur. Hor. de Arte Poet. ' Whose mind soever ii fully possessed with the fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest...infuse the knowledge of them into others — when sack a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command,... | |
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