Sturm''s Reflections on the Works of God: And His Providence Throughout All Nature (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Christoph Christian Sturm

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ISBN 10 : 1332035914 ISBN 13 : 9781332035915

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God

But against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to be neglected, insipid language or sterility of imagery makes no pro vision; it may, perchance, instruct, but can never persuade. Now, although what Sturm says is very good, and very just, yet, as he wishes to lead us from the error of our ways to the wisdom of the just, it is necessary that he use every effort to impress upon our minds an earnest desire to follow him in his strains of piety and heavenly contemplations. He has many powerful obstacles to struggle against such as, the obstinate resistance of our own perverted and corrupt hearts, and the allurements and example of an ignorant and embru tified world, which will not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God: And His Providence Throughout All Nature

The continued and increasing demand for the works of Sturm has occasioned the present edition of his Reflections to be presented to the public; before whose tribunal they have so long been, that to descant now upon their nature, merits, and design, would be superfluous. It may, however, be briefly staled, that these reflections are calculated to enlarge the mind and to purify the heart: they lead the attentive observer through the whole creation, inform him of its stupendous works, and conduct him within the temple of the great God; whilst they inculcate resignation to the divine will, humanity, benevolence, and the most amiable virtues which dignify and adorn human nature.

Several translations of this work have already appeared; but they arc all either grossly inaccurate, and deficient in grammatical purity, or they arc written in a tame, insipid style, devoid of elegance and destitute of interest. Let it be remembered, that something more than merely expressing the thought is required; the harmony of the cadence, the rounding of the period, and the poising of the sentences, all arc necessary to excite and to arrest the attention; and unless the attention be stimulated and stabilitated, it will be to very little purpose that the moralist declaims, or the philosopher writes. For purposes merely didactic, when something is to be told that was not known before, a style the most naked and beggarly might, perhaps, be endured; because the novelty of the matter may induce us to overlook the poverty of the manner: not but, even in this case, the thought will receive additional strength and lustre from elegance and splendour of diction; as a beautiful woman appears more lovely when arrayed with neatness and simplicity, than when cloaked to the heels in very rags and tatters.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332035914
• ISBN 13: 9781332035915
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 490
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible