 | 1828 - 446 էջ
...speedily, easily, and successfully, as by a concentration i of our energies and efforts ? In this respect the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light. How can the people hear without a preacher? And how can they preach except they be sent? In order that... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 էջ
...during gales, On golden hinges turning : The infernal gates Wide open flew, on iron hinges turning, Grating harsh thunder." Now it is not in human nature...For every theory of morals, that is not radically defec15 tive, makes the origin of moral obligation identical with that of religious obligation. So... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1839 - 1020 էջ
...is easy to see how unenterprising, unadapted, unwise, unsystematized, our efforts have been, — how the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light, — how more experience or courage, more perseverance or hopefulness, would have changed the result.... | |
 | 1849 - 320 էջ
...is easy to see how unenterprising, unadapted, unwise, unsystematized, our efforts have been, — how the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light, — how more experience or courage, more perseverance or hopefulness, would have changed the result.... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1857 - 446 էջ
...Christian turn critic ! It is not in human nature to avoid receiving a powerful impression from a skilful choice and collocation of words ; and why should not...For every theory of morals, that is not radically defective, makes the origin of moral obligation identical with that of religious obligation. So that,... | |
 | EDWARD HITCHCOCK - 1857 - 436 էջ
...given an awful distinctness and force to those same torments, has not exaggerated them ; and why ma^ not religion use this power, as any other proper means,...For every theory of morals, that is not radically defective, makes the origin of moral obligation identical with that of religious obligation. So that,... | |
 | University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division - 1922 - 872 էջ
...must begin to make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, in which matter, said the Master of men, the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light. The stewardship of wealth is an all-inclusive doctrine, and it cannot be spelled out without considering... | |
 | University of North Carolina (1793-1962). North Carolina Club - 1923 - 212 էջ
...must begin to make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, in which matter, said the Master of men, the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light. The stewardship of wealth is an all-inclusive doctrine, and it cannot be spelled out without considering... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1906 - 832 էջ
...have done more harm than the biggest papers of the capital. And in this matter, as in many others, the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light. The children of light had their papers, too; but the others were better informed, more alert, and,... | |
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... itself of this means of giving truth a keener edge ? It may, indeed, be carried to excess, as Dante seems to have done in his descriptions of the physical torments of perdition. But Milton, while he has given an awful distinctness and force to those... 