 | Trübner and co - 1855 - 152 pages
...hooks, on profound subjeets, were not unknown here at that time. Jonathan Edwards, said to have heen the first man of the world during the second quarter of the eightcenth century, has many Europcan admirers now. The British pcople nced not he told he was an American,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...".-7 "ni -Чy,. ."i U . ilvl" 'n .'" n l nut -t iy ¡M Putlrr JONATHAN EDWARDS. [Bom 1703. Died W8.] THE first man of the world during the second quarter of the eighteenth century was JONATHAN EDWARDS of Connecticut. As a theologian Robert Hall and Thomas Chalmers admit that he... | |
 | Nicolas Trübner - American literature - 1859 - 758 pages
...was " one of the acutest, most powerful, and, of all rcasoners, the most conscientious and sincere." He may not unworthily be styled the first man of the...him to have been the greatest in all Christian ages. When Richardson broke down the conventionalism of fiction in folios, his racy, natural pictures captivated... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 782 pages
...was ' one of the acutest, most powerful, and, of all reasoners, the most conscientious and sincere.' He may not unworthily be styled the first man of the world during the «cond quarter of the eighteenth century ; and as a theologian, Dr. Chalmers and Robert Hall declare... | |
 | Nicolas Trübner - 1859 - 748 pages
...was " one of the acutest, most powerful, aud, of all reasoners, the most conscientious and sincere." He may not unworthily be styled the first man of the world daring the second quarter of the eighteenth century ; and as a theologian, Dr. Chalmers and Robert... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - Literature - 1860 - 592 pages
...the theological to the more purely literary era of American anthorship. Jonathan Edwards (1703-'85) was the first native writer who gave unequivocal evidence...man of the world during the second quarter of the 18th century, and as a theologian, 1)r. Chalmers and Robert Hall declare him to have been the greatest... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Botta - Literature - 1876 - 592 pages
...theological to the more purely literary era of American authorship. Jonathan Edwards (1703-'85) was Ihe first native writer who gave unequivocal evidence...man of the world during the second quarter of the 18th century, and as a theologian, Dr. Chalmers and Robert Hall declare him to have been the greatest... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Law - 1879 - 822 pages
...this period that the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Connecticut, who was proclaimed by his admirers to be " the first man of the world during the second quarter of the eighteenth century," made his appearance, and by the vigor and variety of his thought, the brilliancy and terseness of his... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 724 pages
...country, but was long a living power in all English theology. Edwards has been called by some admirer " the first man of the world during the second quarter of the 18th century." His style, though not always lucid, is vigorous; his eloquence was fervid, aud his fife... | |
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... the first man of the world during the second quarter of the 18th century, and as a theologian, Dr. Chalmers and Robert Hall declare him to have been the greatest in all Christian ages. 
