"Defectiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And, since he was a part of that same great whole, Then the soul of all Nature was also his soul;— Or, more plainly—to be not obscure or dim— That God had developed Himself in him:— That what is called Sin in mankind, is not so, But is just misdirection, all owing, you know, To defectiveness either of body or brain, Or both, which the soul is not thought to retain,— In the body it acts as it must, but that dead All stain from the innocent ...
— Poems of the Heart and Home • Mrs. J.C. Yule (Pamela S. Vining)
... into Lyric Verse: Proposed as an Essay, supplying the Perspicuity and Coherence according to the Modern Art of Poetry; not known to have been attempted before in any Language. With a Preface containing some Observations of the great and general Defectiveness of former Versions in Greek, Latin, and English. By Dr. [James] Gibbs. London: printed by J. Mathews, for John Hartley, over-against Gray's-Inn, ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IV: - Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume II • Jonathan Swift
... objecting to the Hebrew view of Deity as too appropriating in its character, and as making the divine Being appear cruel.(234) He denied the originality of the Hebrew moral law,(235) and pointed out the supposed defectiveness of the Hebrew polity; comparing unfavourably the type of the Hebrew lawgiver as seen in Moses, and of the king as seen in David, with the great heroes of Greek history.(236) The Hebrew prophecy he tried to weaken by putting it in comparison with oracles. In estimating the ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar |
