 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...of time that this world hath to finish. THE EVILS OF AN UNQUESTIONING FAITH IN HUMAN AUTHORITY. 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 maj be a... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...models held out for them to copy, as from their servile adherence to them. " Truth," says Milton, " is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition ;" and all experience... | |
 | John Guthrie - 1868 - 352 pages
...principle that does violence to conscience. In the noble words of Milton : " Faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion....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... | |
 | Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...though you should succeed in shutting all these gates against the mind, what would you gain thereby ? Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." " To preserve... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 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... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...with a living eloquence, of which a few words may here suflice : — ' Our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming 1 Ed. Rev. July 1850. See TCssay I. fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they... | |
 | Ecclesia - 1871 - 432 pages
...who are least disposed to fear for the results. The noble words are still as true as ever : " Well knows he who uses to consider that our faith and knowledge...a streaming fountain. : if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition And though all the... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 pages
...consider," says Milton in a noble passage of the " Areopagitica," " that our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs' and complexion....to a streaming fountain : if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." Incalculable mischief... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...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...knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and com- ; ,' ' -plexion. Truth is compared in scripture to a stream ingfoun- ; jajn ; if her waters flow... | |
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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... 
