 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filied it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it,...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without. ' p. S3, 84. In another place, he says, ' I am serious upon it. I am afraid that both you and I shall... | |
 | 1809 - 530 Seiten
...age 1 The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.' p. 83, 84. In another place, he says, ' I am serious upon it. I am afraid that both you and I shall... | |
 | William Warburton - 1809 - 536 Seiten
...age! The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without. I have read over Chap. III. again and again, and find still new beauties in it. What you say of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 Seiten
...: ' The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving : not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...clamour in it ; but for the little corner of rationality which was as mucli distressed by the stench within as by the tempest without.' Art. 2.— JOSEPH CONEAD.... | |
 | 1810 - 590 Seiten
...church. ' The church, like the ark of Noah, is worth saving, not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...distressed by the stink within as by the tempest without. « The Rabbins make the giant Gog or Magog contemporary with Noah, and convinced by .his preaching.... | |
 | 1809 - 672 Seiten
...say« ; The church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, butfor'lhe little corner of rationality, that was as mtioh distressed by the stink within, as by the... | |
 | 1817 - 436 Seiten
...learned prelate, " like the Ark of Noah, is wgrth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for th* little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 706 Seiten
...age ! The Church, like the ark of Noah, is worth saving; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin, that almost filled it, and probably made most...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without." In Letter 47th, dated Prior-Park, July 5, 1752. the facetious, but profane Bishop renews the subject... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 Seiten
...letters, " The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...therefore, that the Church finds so many opponents of its course : — but for those who have occasioned the clamour to complain of it, and fulminate anathemas... | |
 | John Brown - 1839 - 562 Seiten
...:— " The Church, like the ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without. " Our Grandees have at last found their way back into the church. I only wonder they have been so long... | |
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The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within,... 
