The works of Richard Hurd, volume 8 (of 8)

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Such is the idea which the Scriptures oblige us to entertain of _the manifold wisdom_ of God in Christ Jesus: _manifold_, as it presents to us the various evolutions of an etern...

III. Such are the observations, which the sad story of the times we have been reviewing obviously suggests to us. And now let us pause a little: And having before us what the na...

On this first occasion of our meeting, you will think it agreeable to the relation I have the honour to bear to you, if I take leave to remind you of such of your Clerical Dutie...

You see, then, what my meaning is—“That the EVIDENCE of Christianity, and not its _rationale_ (which, however justly conceived and ably executed, cannot extend so far as curious...

The Christian preacher should, I say, speak with _earnestness_; that is, with a solicitous concern to instruct and persuade, such as the known truth of his doctrine warrants. Th...

What comes next is indeed _positive_, but still less to the writer’s purpose. We can scarce think him serious, when he would urge the testimony of Hierocles, Celsus, and Julian,...

Indeed the superior airs he gives himself, on all occasions, are not without their use. For persons unacquainted, as the generality of his readers must needs be, with the questi...

This addition of _civil_ power did by no means abrogate or lessen the _spiritual_. We find, in the reign of _Hen._ VI. that all sorts of ecclesiastical authority were adjudged t...

Such are the sentiments of this forward Inquirer of the Senate of the University of _Cambridge_: sentiments, which must needs create in the breast of any man of sense, who is a...

As great an admirer as I must profess myself of your writings, I little expected that any of them would give me the pleasure that I have just now received from the last of your...

Another man, I can easily imagine, would have said to himself before he had entered on this task, “This fine commentary, which sets the most finished part of the Ænëis, and inde...

And here, on a view of this whole matter, let me profess the pleasure I take in observing that you (and I have remarked it in some others), who have so constantly those soft wor...

But be it allowed, that, if the terms of one language, even though a congruous construction be observed, be constantly and strictly adapted to the _idioms_ of another, the expre...

This idea of purity in language you think strange; and yet in the very chapter in which you set yourself to contemplate and to reprobate this _strange idea_, you cannot help res...

The Bishop’s idea, then, of the end of eloquence, I presume, is fairly and fully justified. But your complaint now is, that the Bishop does not himself abide by this idea. For y...

The TWO propositions his Lordship took upon him to confute, 1. _That an inspired language must needs be a language of perfect eloquence_; and, 2. _That eloquence is something co...

3. But what above all confirms and fixes this interpretation is the tenor of our Saviour’s answer to the question itself. For, upon the inquiry, _Master, shew us a sign_, &c. hi...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, dispute concerning appeals at, viii. 189. historical account of its jurisdiction, 208. addition of civil power to the spiritual, 211. power of making local...

KNOWLEDGE, requisite to judge of Christianity, vi. 32. why productive of pride and vanity, vi. 277. its remedy, not ignorance, but charity, _ib._ error in considering it the sup...

TROPES and figures, when and in what sense vicious, viii. 366. what forms of language so denominated by Quintilian, 371. often a deviation from logical definition, 377. when the...