 ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed; that...  The Christian Observer - Page 2541815Full view - About this book
 | Jane Williams - Authors - 1861 - 580 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." * It is mortifying to recognize the historic fact that, after the exposition of these unquestionable... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed; that, whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | Lewis Borrett White - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1864 - 232 pages
...they see her elegantly dressed,—that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now to be rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they will then appear, to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." Equally groundless was Cowper's expression... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed; that, -whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns - 1866 - 374 pages
...they see her elegantly dressed, — that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now to be rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." The " Palms " of Elim stand for majesty,... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns - 1866 - 366 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed, — that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now to be rugged and difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they will then appear to all men... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were ragged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon... | |
 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 pages
...whereas the paths of lionesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they indeed be easy and pleasant, they will then appear to all men...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." It is unnecessary for us to try to point out further those works in our modern poetry and fiction which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 196 pages
...delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herselfe, unlesse they see her elegantly drest, that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear...difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appeare to all men both easy and pleasant though they were rugged and difficult indeed.... | |
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