 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 pages
...armour enough against one single enchiridion, without the Castle St. Angelo of an imprimatur. . . . 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... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 292 pages
...chair assume both these over worthiest and excellentest books and ablest authors that write them. 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 bf conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | James Mackinnon - 1908 - 540 pages
...compulsion. Particularly dangerous is the stagnation of mind and knowledge such a policy begets. " 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." There are Protestants... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1907 - 468 pages
...proportions, breaks into lateral deformities as the only vent for its vitality." And again he says, " 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. He who thinks we... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 374 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 pages
...a 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...knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and com•> Non-conformist assembly. n Worried (as by dogs). " Abolished. plexion.™ Truth is compared... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1909 - 328 pages
...which run ten knots an hour [how much more we might now say] against the wind."* "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." Science is of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...step-dame to truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. plexion. " * 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. A man may... | |
 | John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...Shakespears gives the general conception of stepmothers in Cymbeline, 1, i, 71. 5 to: in regard to. and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. 1 Truth 2 is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 272 pages
...more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compel'd. Areopagitica OCCASIONAL RELIGION Truth is compared in Scripture 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... | |
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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... 
