 ... of an intellect defaced with sin and time. We admire it now, only as antiquaries do a piece of old coin, for the stamp it once bore, and not for, those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly that...  Princeton Theological Review - Page 3561914Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...been very glorious, the decays ot which are so admirable.— He that is comely when old and deciiped, surely was very beautiful when he was young. — An...an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.' pp. 213 — 214. ' It was not then, PS it is now, where the conscience has only power to disapprove,... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...remainders of it now, and guess at the stateliness of the building, by the magnificence of its ruins. And, certainly, that must needs have been very glorious,...an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise." Affirmative Table. Negative Table. The Sun's direct Rays. Blood of Terrestrial Animals. The Moon's... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...remainders of it now, and guess at the stateliness of the building, by the magnificence of its ruins. And, certainly, that must needs have been very glorious,...an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise." Affirmative Table. Negative T,,l,li , The Sun's direct Bays. Blood of Terrestrial Animals. Living Animals.... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments, and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly, that must needs have been very glorious,...are so admirable. He that is comely, when old and decrepid, surely was very beautiful when he was young. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam,... | |
 | Robert South - Sermons, English - 1823 - 618 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly that must needs have been very glorious,...are so admirable. He that is comely, when old and decrepid, surely was very beautiful when he was young. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly that must needs have been very glorious,...an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. It was the privilege of Adam innocent, to have these notions also firm and untainted, to carry his... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1823 - 684 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments, and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly, that must needs have been very glorious,...are so admirable. He that is comely, when old and dccrepid, eurely was very beautiful when he was young. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam,... | |
 | Robert South - Occasional sermons - 1827 - 490 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly, that must needs have been very glorious,...an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. 2. The image of God was no less resplendent in that, which we call man's practical understanding ;... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 560 pages
...bore, and not for those vanishing lineaments and disappearing draughts that remain upon it at present. And certainly, that must needs have been very glorious, the decays of which are so admirable. He that was comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. An Aristotle was but... | |
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