 | Catherine Mary Phillimore - 1873 - 236 Seiten
...Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks ; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly thorough Reformation,...were intended For nothing else but to be mended.*' * Dr. Russell could not hope to escape the storm which overwhelmed his brethren. He was also driven... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1873 - 592 Seiten
...murder, over which Loyola wept ; that " glorious, godly reformation," " Which always must be curried on And still be doing, never done, As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended." It would seem, however, that the end has come at last; the old coat has literally dropped to pieces.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks ; C'all tire, and sword, and desolation A godly, thorough Reformation, Which always must be earned on And still be doing, never done ; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...knocks; Call fire and sword and desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. The burlesque also has objects other than Puritanism. Chivalry, as in Don Quixote, and heroism, as... | |
 | 1925 - 906 Seiten
...its common-sense dissatisfaction, theoretically, with never arriving at the knowledge of the truth— "As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended"— in a life where man has to play his part, not as a mere reasoning anmal, but as a thinking, feeling,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...Knocks, Call Fire and Sword and Desolation A godly-thorough-Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. . . . There is not a point here which does not glance at some seventeenth-century doctrine, controversy,... | |
 | Sangharakshita (Bhikshu), Sangharakshita - 1993 - 70 Seiten
...even in Asia is in need of a thorough reformation — not, indeed, A godly, thorough Reformation... As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended, but a reformation in the sense of a restatement of fundamentals and an expression of that restatement... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks; 200 Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly thorough Reformation,...religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended, A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies: In falling out with that or this, And... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1999 - 291 Seiten
...Butler would describe the endlessly busy spirit of parliamentarian reform in similar terms: "Call fire, and sword, and desolation / A godly, thorough reformation,...were intended / For nothing else but to be mended" (Samuel Butler, Hudibras, I. i. 199-204, in Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry, ed. Witherspoon and... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 Seiten
...their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery . . . As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. 14 In particular - this is the positive development - natural science was making headway as a solid... | |
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To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation,... 
