| 1829 - 624 pages
...men. Because that which poisons one man, is not likely to be very wholesome to another. To be sure, we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. And a great deal may be said to show that the pure commodity, clarified and doubledistilled, which... | |
| 1829 - 842 pages
...men. Because that which poisons one man, is not likely to be very wholesome to another. To be sure, we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. And a great deal may be said to show that the pure commodity, clarified and doubledistilled, which... | |
| William Jay - 1829 - 538 pages
...lasciviousness, so often quote. Such persons wrest also the other Scriptures to their own destruction. And are we to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it ? What good thing is not abused ? Yet we do not refuse raiment to the naked, because there are some... | |
| William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...shameful is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in pur spirit. Let us say, with... | |
| Walter Farquhar Hook - 1841 - 434 pages
...Church should speak a language which her children, and they only, can understand. At the same time we are not to argue against the use of a thing from its possible abuse. If it is possible that wicked men may profane the Sanctuary with their presence... | |
| William Jay - 1856 - 650 pages
...shameful is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in our spirit. Let us say, with... | |
| 1860 - 528 pages
...literature ? And so with a thousand other such sayings and references— "Extremes meet, sir ;" "You mustn't argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it;" "The exception proves the rule ;" Talleyrand's remark about the use of speech ; Newton gathering pebbles... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1860 - 558 pages
...? And so with a thousand other such sayings and references — "Extremes meet, sir ;" "You mustn't argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it;" "The exception proves the rule ;" Talleyrand's remark about the use of speech ; Newton gathering pebbles... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1863 - 272 pages
...been poisoned by bad books, and inflammatory publications, if they had not been taught how to read. To argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it is au obvious fallacy ; but the true answer to all such statements is, that instruction is not education,... | |
| William Jay - 1864 - 703 pages
...sLamefu] is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in our spirit. Let us say, with... | |
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