 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 Seiten
...deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alcbymy doth, or would do, the substance of metab ; maketh of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth, in the end, all truth to nothing. Hooter. О he sits high in all the people's hearts ; And that which would appear offence in us, His... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1812 - 572 Seiten
...will ftand, the " fartheft from the letter is commonly the " worft. There is nothing more dangerous " than this licentious and deluding art, which " changeth...meaning of words, as alchymy " doth, or would do, the fubftance of metals ; " maketh of any thing what it lifteth ; and " bringeth in the end all truth to... | |
 | 1815 - 538 Seiten
...which ctiangeth the meaning or words, as aichymy doth, or would do, the substance of metals, aiaketh of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." Eccl. l-ol. v. 59. This flyina; from die literal to the figurative sense, which Hooker and the Reviewer... | |
 | 1816 - 700 Seiten
...construction w3t Btand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth...listeth ; and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing, or howsoever such Voluntary exercise of wit might be borne with otherwise, yet in places, which usually... | |
 | 1816 - 700 Seiten
...construction win stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or \vonM do the substance of metals: maketh of any thing what it listeth; and bringcth in the end all... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 Seiten
...commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than ihi- licentious and deluding art, which changcth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, makcth of any thing which it listelh, and brin^eth in the end all truth to nothing. Or howsoever such... | |
 | 1816 - 886 Seiten
...construetion will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words as Aldiymip doth, or would do, the substance of -metals ; maketh of any thing what it listeth ; and bringeth,... | |
 | 1828 - 818 Seiten
...construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth...doth, or would do, the substance of metals, maketh of anything what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." — Eccles. Pol p. 275. fol.... | |
 | 1821 - 702 Seiten
...this licentious and deluding art, which clungeth the meaning of words as alchymy doth or would do tke substance of metals, maketh of any thing what it listeth and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing." P. 132. In the eighth and ninth chapters of his work, Dr. Bethell enters at large into a consideration... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1825 - 688 Seiten
...construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth...listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing. Or howsoever such voluntary exercise of wit might be borne with otherwise ; yet in places which usually... | |
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I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth... 
