| 1881 - 578 pages
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. . . . Well . a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...the truths they discovered ! All shame to us if we do not discover more ! * 1 "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." Of course there... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...others into their seats under another name, the Well knows he who uses to consider, that опт faith mi knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs...and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a stresminî fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual procres-i a, they sicken into a muddy pool... | |
| John Milton - 1884 - 326 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...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 - 1884 - 472 pages
...with a living eloquence, of which a few words may here suffice : — ' 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.' ' If it come to... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1885 - 372 pages
...the truths they discovered ! All shame to us if we do not discover more ! * 1 "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." Of course there... | |
| 1886 - 330 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... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. . . . Well 7 a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 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... | |
| John Milton - 1889 - 464 pages
...maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and know-* ledge thrives 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... | |
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