 | Charles Sprague - 1830 - 120 pages
...disciplines, which have become, at this day, obsolete or modified, and so seems mistaken or misplaced. But the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to be measured...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object. Liberty, whether civil or religious, is among the noblest objects of human regard. Yet,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...has been well remarked by a distinguished writer of our own country, " that the wisdom of zeal for an object is not to be measured by the particular nature...the circumstances of the times, or of society, have identilied with such object."3 Upon the accession of Queen Mary (in 1553), hundreds, and even thousands,... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 360 pages
...indifferent. But it has been well remarked by President Quincy, in his Centennial Address at Boston, that " the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object." t This version was first published in 1560. So highly was it esteemed, particularly on... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 550 pages
...indifferent. But it has been well remarked by President Quincy, in his Centennial Address at Boston, that "the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to...particular nature of that object, but by the nature of the principie, which the circumstances of the times, or of society, have identified with such object."... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 pages
...indifferent. But it has .been well remarked by President Quincy, in his Centennial Address at Boston, that " the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to be measured by the particular nature ofthat object, but by the nature ofthe principle, which the circumstances of the times, or of society,... | |
 | 1848 - 786 pages
...been well remarked by a distinguished writer of oir? own country, " that the wisdom of zeal for an object is not to be measured by the particular nature...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object."* Upon the accession of Queen Mary (in 1553), hundreds, and even thousands, of the most... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...has been well remarked by a distinguished writer of our own country, " that the wisdom of zeal for an object is not to be measured by the particular nature...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object."* Upon the accession of Queen Mary (in 1553), hundreds, and even .thousands, of the most... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...has been well remarked by a distinguished writer of our own country, "that the wisdom of zeal for an object is not to be measured by the particular nature...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object."1 Upon the accession of Queen Mary (in 1553), hundreds, and even thousands, of the most... | |
 | John W. McClung - 1851 - 386 pages
...disciplines which have become, at this day, obsolete or modified, and so seems mistaken or misplaced. But the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to be measured...of the times, or of society, have identified with such object. man regard. Yet, to a being constituted like man, abstract liberty has no existence, and... | |
 | Isaac Smith Homans - 1851 - 392 pages
...disciplines which have become, at this day, obsolete or modified, and so seems mistaken or misplaced. But the wisdom of zeal for any object is not to be measured...principle which the circumstances of the times, or of sociely, have identified with such objpcl. man regard. Yet, to a being constituted like man, abstract... | |
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... of this class of men, chiefly known by the name of Puritans, were the founders of this metropolis. To a superficial view, their zeal seems directed to forms and ceremonies and disciplines, which have become, at this day, obsolete or modified, and... 
