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Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 157
Blackwals Sacred Classics 2Vs
Borrowed: 1776/4/5 (Friday). Returned: 1776/4/5 (Friday).
John Crockat
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Theology
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 Writers 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. By A. Blackwall, M.A.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
Confidence level: Speculative
Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Theology
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 Writers 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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1725. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 5 times in 4 borrowing records
ESTC: T55733
Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Theology
Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated
Confidence level: Speculative
Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Theology
The sacred classics defended and illustrated. The second and last volume. In three parts. Containing, I. A. farther demonstration of the propriety, purity, and sound eloquence of the language of the New Testament writers. II. An account of the wrong division of chapters and verses, and faulty translations of the Divine Book, which weaken its reasonings, and spoil its eloquence and native beauties. III. A discourse on the various eadings of the New Testament. With a preface, wherein is shewn the necessity and usefulness of a new version of the Sacred Books. By the late Reverend and Learned A. Blackwall, A.M. author of the first volume. To which is annex’d, a very copious index.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1731. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
ESTC: T55735
Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730)
Genre: Theology
Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated
Borrowed: 1776/4/5 (Friday). Returned: 1776/4/5 (Friday).
Borrower: John Crockat
Author: Anthony Blackwall (Male, born 1674, died 1730), Genre: Theology
Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2