Isaac Watts excerpts

Excerpts from: “AN OCCASIONAL VINDICATION OF THE APOSTLES FROM THE CHARGE OF UNCHARITABLENESS” (by Isaac Watts) “But what shall we say to those who take the venerable names of the sacred writers, and charge them with the same scandalous practice? There is one Momus, who is well known in the world for a person that [...]

Isaac Watts quote

“There is another manner of proposing our own opinions, or rather opposing the opinions of others, which demands mention here, and that is, when persons make a jest serve instead of an argument; when they refute what they call an error by a turn of wit, and answer every objection against their own sentiment, by [...]