 a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great: " Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, as, immediately before his...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 68by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his "Iconoclastes, witli the use of this prayer, as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relic of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose fffice is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his " Iconoclastes," with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relic of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 676 pages
...the use of this " prayer, as with a heavy crime, in the "indecent language with which pros" perity had emboldened the advocates " for rebellion to insult all that is vener"able or great." He adds that the interpolation was probably at least managed by the Regicides among them, and that,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1878 - 504 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...the hands of the grave Bishop that attended him, as a special relique of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1881 - 578 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...the hands of the grave Bishop that attended him, as a special relique of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen... | |
 | 1888 - 496 pages
...attended his Majesty on the scaffold. The following extract is made from Milton's " Iconoclastes ":— " Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true Allseeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office it is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
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