 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...poets; and shall only further offer the following instances in prose. " Truth is compared in scriptures to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in...sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. " Truth came once into our world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 pages
...; and shall only further offer the following instances in prose. " Truth is compared in scriptures to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in...sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. " Truth came once into our world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...a stepdame to truth ; and first hy disenahling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives hy exercise, as well as our limhs and complexion. Truth is compared in scripture to a streaming fountain... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 536 pages
...a stepdame to truth ; and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool -of .A' conformity and tradition. A man may... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...step-dame to Truth : and first by disinabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our Faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...step-dame to Truth : and first by disinabling us to the maintenance of what is • known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our Faith and Knowledge thrives by exercise, as weU as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pages
...professed himself a Lutheran and the other a Martinist. • Milton on Heresy and Implicit Faith. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...a stepdame to truth ; and first by dlsinaHGngf usjo~the maintenance"of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 976 pages
...a stepdame to truth : and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...step-dame to truth ; and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
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Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy... 
