Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H. Scriptures. Rendered Into Modern Language, by P. Panter - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... I Am now arrived, Theophilus, at that part of my treatise, where it will be proper to take into consideration an important objection against the style of the Scriptures, which to a person steadily occupied in the pursuit of wisdom, would seem trivial; but is urged as of moment by its skilful adversaries, particu* larly those, who careless of the higher faculties, make it a source of amusement to exercise and gratify their imagination. The objection is this: that the Scriptures are so unadorned with the flowers of rhetoric, and so destitute of eloquence and elevation, that they seldom prove efficacious upon intelligent readers; that many persons of genius and rank, and particularly statesmen, either despise or neglect them. The story of the cardinal who flourished in the last age, is well known, (nor do I fear to repeat it in this place) who said, that once indeed he had read the Bible, but that if he were to do so again it would lose him all his latmity. And among those who esteemed themselves great orators, and lived in the same age and country with the cardinal, the complaint was not unfrequent, that reading the Bible, untaught them the purity of the Roman language, and corrupted their Ciceronian style. And it now occurs to my memory, that a prince of some celebrity, in conversation with me, in no obscure company, maintained an opinion respecting the style of Scripture, in comparison with which the cardinal's scorn was even complimentary. I have too much respect, however, for his other qualities to associate his name with this animadversion. Most happy would it be for our native country, if those seas which so happily divide it from this world's continent, could preserve her separate from its vices; if they could confine these petulant expressions to foreign s...
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