 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1917 - 296 pages
...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...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." 2 That Sandys's theory of government by popular 1 TF Henderson, Art., Richard Hooker, Encyc. Brit.... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...; this man indeed deserves the name of 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." A short passage in the Ecclesiastical Polity gives a beautiful sense of Hooker's humble reverence,... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...understanding: this man indeed deserves the name of an author: his books will get reverence by age; for there is he clergy thir, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Nor was this high, the only testimony... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 pages
...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 like this, they shall last till the last live shall consume all learning. Of Hooker's style, perhaps the most remarkable feature is the singular... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 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...the first coming of King James into this kingdom, he inquired of the Archbishop XYhitgift for his friend Mr. Hooker that writ the Books of Church-Polity... | |
 | Debora K. Shuger, Renaissance Society of America - 1997 - 300 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." 5 Andrewes's scholarly, political, and literary acquaintances included half the important men in Jacobean... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 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...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." King James said much the same: "I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language, but a grave,... | |
 | William Cave - 1842 - 304 pages
...this roan, 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...learning." Nor was this high, the only testimony and commendation given to his books ; for at the first coming of King James, he inquired of Archbishop... | |
 | 1868 - 860 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... | |
 | 1813 - 774 pages
...his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such leeds of eternity, that if the rest he like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all Learning." No trace can I find, in the abovementioned respectable Biographer, of the bitter sarcasm on the disposal... | |
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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... 
