 It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he 25 professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Pagina 3811841Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1880 - 506 pagini
...idea with ineffable scorn. " In every sense," he says, with accumulated emphasis, " In every sense, a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man's or a nation's. By religion I do not mean the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pagini
...poison dews, are going and as good as gone." He considers " a man's religion, in every sense, to be the chief fact with regard to him : a man's, or a...nation of men's. By religion, I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign : not this wholly, in many... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pagini
...contradiction it is ourselves, and not the thing, we maintain." WHAT IS A MAN'S RELIGION? NOT the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or deeds otherwise assert ; not this wholly ; in many cases not this at all. We see men of all kinds of... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pagini
...: — " A. man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or otherwise assert. We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness... | |
 | 1867 - 972 pagini
...which we can only give a few extracts. In his first lecture, on " The Hero as Divinity," he says, — " It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or otherwise... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1849 - 588 pagini
...assigned by Mr. Carlyle to the religious element in man is stated in the following passage : — ' It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion 1 do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 pagini
...not exhaust my subject but so much as break ground on it ! At all events, I must mafc the attempt. It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the ehiei fact with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pagini
...which he considers truth and that which he calls superstition and error. As Carlyle has written : " It is well said in every sense that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. By religion, I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he... | |
 | Wilbur Moorehead Smith - 1918 - 402 pagini
...other devotional acts performed in honor of the supreme God." — Century Dictionary. " It has been well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is...with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's." — Carlyle. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, thai we worship God in spirit and in truth.... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - 820 pagini
...University," and Whewell's 'Bridgewater Treatise' on Astronomy and General Physics. Carlyle has said that " a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him ; " and as in this age of freethought, science is too often regarded as the enemy of religion, I should... | |
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