 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 էջ
...ordinary mode of composition, as well as of arrangement. The following is an example in this way : " Your fathers, where are they ? " and the prophets, do they live for ever J ?" A colder writer would have satisfied himself with saying, " Where are your fathers ? and do the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 էջ
...order,\ to place that in the front which is the chief object of the propofition •we are laying down. (Sometimes, however, when we intend to give weight to a Sentence, it is of advantage to fufpend the meaning for a little, and then bring it out full at the clofe : TThus," fays Mr. Pope,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 էջ
...ways, and [from] your evil doings ; but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saiili the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where [are] they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? those who prophesied, and the people against whom they prophesied, are all dead ; but the testimony... | |
 | William Jay - 1805 - 486 էջ
...forth like a flower, and " is cut down : he fleeth alfo as ^a fhadow, and c'on" tinueth not." " The fathers, where are they ? and" the prophets, do they live for ever ?" We enter the city, and fee man going to his long home, and the mourners going about the ftreets.... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 էջ
...imitate and highly prize them for their works' sake ! Enoch was a prophet ; but prophets must die. " Your fathers, where are they : and the prophets, do they live for ever?" Prize faithful ministers. You will not have them long ; they will soon depart out of your sight, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 էջ
...in the beginning of the sentence. So in the following passages :• " Silver and gold have I none ; but such as I have, give I unto thee," &c. " Your...advantage to suspend the meaning for a little, and then brmg itouifull at the close. " Thus," says an author, ." on whatever side we contemplate this ancient... | |
 | Charles Wellbeloved - 1809 - 216 էջ
...departure out of it. One other reflection suggested by this event is of great importance to us all. " Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" Our fathers have ceased 196 to have any interest in all that is wrought under the sun, and the prophets... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 էջ
...order, thus to place in the front that which forms the chief object of theproposition to be laid down. Sometimes however, when we intend to give weight to...Sentence, it is of advantage to suspend the meaning for a while, and then bring it out full at the close. EXAMPLE.1 — " On whatever side we contemplate Homer,... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 552 էջ
...— My Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. Well may we cry out, Our fathers, where are they ; and the prophets, do they live for ever ? Hereby are we solemnly admonished that we must die. How doth it become us to shake off sloth, and... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 554 էջ
...— My Father, my Father, the chariot'of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. Well may we cry out, Our fathers, where are they ; and the prophets, do they live for ever ? Hereby are we solemnly admonished that we must die. How doth it become us to shake off sloth, and... | |
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 
