 | Europe - 1825 - 776 pages
...popular. It is a work " which (as Johnson said of Burnet's account of the conversion of Rochester) the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." It foils the sceptic at his own weapons, and makes him feel that reason and philosophy are not for... | |
 | 1810 - 596 pages
...passages of the Life and Death of John, earl of Rochester ;" " a book," which, as Dr. Johnson says, " the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." Murray's Power of ReligionRELIGIOUS COMMUNICATIONS. ON THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Continued from page... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...a book, intituled, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester, which the critick ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement. He He died July 26, 1680, before he had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...Burnet, in a book, entilled, " Some " passages of the life and death of John earl of Ro" chester," which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to. offer him an abridgment. He died July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 518 pages
...the character Dr. Johnson gave of it in his Life of Rochester : he there pronounces it a book " which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." During the affair of the popish plot, Dr. Burnet was often consulted by king Charles, upon the state... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...Rochester." — Of this work Dr. Johnson passes the following high encomium. " It is a book, which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the samt for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an Abridgment*." 7. The Life of Sir... | |
 | John Britton - Bishops - 1814 - 202 pages
...hyperbolically characterises Burnet's " Life, &c. of the Earl of Rochester," as "a book which the critic should read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." As a divine, Burnet was ingenious, learned, and animated ; but as an historian, though generally circumstantial... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 354 pages
...hyperbolically characterises Burnet's " Life, &c. of the Earl of Rochester," as "a book which the critic should read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety." As a divine, Burnet was ingenious, learned, and animated ; but as an historian, though generally circumstantial... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 138 pages
...Bishop Burnet, by whom an account of his conversion was left behind ; " which," as Johnson observes, " the critic ought to read for its elegance ; the philosopher for its argument; and the saint for its piety." The Earl of Rochester, upon his death-bed, thus concluded his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...a book, intituled, Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester, which the critick ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. It were an injury to the reader to offer him an abridgement. He died July 26, 1680, before he had completed... | |
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Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester," which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety. 
