The sacred classics defended and illustrated : or, An essay humbly offer'd towards proving the purity, propriety, and true eloquence of the writers of the New Testament. In two parts. In the first of which those divine writers are vindicated against the charge of barbarous language, false Greek, and solecisms. In the second is shewn, that all the excellencies of style, and sublime beauties of language and genuine eloquence do abound in the sacred writings of the New Testament. With an account of their style and character, and a representation of their superiority, in several instances, to the best classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin'd proper indexes /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by J. Bettenham, for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard, and W. Cantrell bookseller in Derby,
M,DCC,XXV. [1725]
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| Item Description: | Indexes: [16] pages at end. Title page printed in red and black. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Two parts in one volume, each part with special title page. Pagination continuous. " ... he completed the second and last volume of this work a few weeks before his death in 1730, and it was published under the same title in 1731"--Dictionary of national biography. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. England -- Derby. |