 Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved.  Poetics, an Essay on Poetry - Page 54by Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. ' The employments of pious meditation are faith, thankigiving, repentance, and fupplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...deiwoiion. Whatever is great, defireable., or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | William Hodson - 1780 - 124 pages
...ohfcrves, whatever is great, defirablc, or tremendous, is comprifej in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved, Prefaces to the Englifh Poets. —Life of Waller, rrtoft impoffible, however they may hold their place... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. ' The employments of pious meditation are 'Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirous, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. OMNIPOTENCE cannot be exalted. INFINITY cannot be amplified, PERFECTION cannot be improved. Pino. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art, fhould be funk in general... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...tion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...tion. Whatever is great, defireable, or tremendous, is comprifed in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...Whatever is great, defireable, or treT 1 mendous, mendous, is comprifed in the name of the Suprem* Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1794 - 508 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable or tremendous, is compriied in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved. " The employments of pious meditation are faith, thankfgiving, repentance and fupplication. Faith,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...devotion. Whatever is great, defirable, or tremendous, is compriled in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; Infinity cannot be amplified ; Perfection cannot be improved. The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thankfgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably... | |
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