 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...for his friend Mr. Hooker, that writ the books of Church-polity ; to which the answer was, that he died a year before Queen Elizabeth, who received the... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...This man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence from age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that, if the rest be like this, they shall last until the last fire consume all learning." But it must be admitted that the rest, however great their... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1860 - 408 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning.' " * He was for some time Fellow of Oriel College, and principal of St. Mary Hall. He was made a Cardinal... | |
 | George Anthony Denison - 1862 - 358 pages
...vindication of that assertion by our own Hooker extorted from Pope Clement VIII. the well-known confession, that, " if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Its triumphant elaboration by our divines of the seventeenth century created the only body of theology... | |
 | 1864 - 610 pages
...sober truth every whit as applicable to the book on Daniel now before us. " There is," said the Pope, " no learning that this man hath not searched into,...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." (Walton's Life.) Our admiration is kindled when we find the old Greek musical instruments described... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1864 - 438 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of ' an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...of King James into this kingdom, he enquired of the Archhishop Whitgift for his friend 11 r. Hooker, that writ the books of Church polity ; to which the... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning.' " * He was for some time Fellow of Oriel College, and principal of St. Mary Hall. He was made a Cardinal... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 384 pages
...This man indeed deserves the name of an author; his books will get reverence from age; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that, if the rest be like this, they shall last until the last fire consume all learning." Bat it must be admitted that the rest, however great their... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 pages
...Hooker to write a book of which a Pope of Rome shall say, in admiration of the Ecclesiastical Polity, " His books will get reverence by age, for there are...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Our King James I. emulated the style of His Holiness, by saying, with all the authority of the royal... | |
 | Nevison Loraine - 1872 - 236 pages
...into, nothing too hard for his understanding. . . . His books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the fire consumes all learning." HOOPER, JOHN, was a native of Somersetshire, born AD 1495. In 1514 he... | |
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There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be... 
