 | John Henry Newman - 1837 - 428 pagina’s
...be passed on the superstitious and gloomy. Here I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, 1 Deut. iv. 24. more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be. Not... | |
 | David Irving - 1839 - 400 pagina’s
...Oxford preachers of a slightly-modified popery, " I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly...religion, than at present it shows itself to be." 3 We may doubtless suppose this writer to understand of what raw materials " the holy apostolic church,"... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pagina’s
...of piety he sought to introduce, — he expresses the firm conviction that the country would gain " were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more...gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it ahows itself to be." Not that these tempers of mind are desirable, but that the}' are " infinitely... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagina’s
...and terrible side of religion. " I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction," said Newman, " that it would be a gain to this country were it vastly...its religion, than at present it shows itself to be. Not, of course, that I think the tempers of mind herein implied desirable, which would be an evident... | |
 | 1867 - 570 pagina’s
...sermons he said, he " did not shrink from uttering his firm conviction, that it would be a gain to the country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at that time it showed itself to be." Think of this ! Read it again, Churchman and Dissenters ; and then... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1864 - 608 pagina’s
...first Sermons I said, " I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted,...its religion than at present it shows itself to be." I added, of course, that it would be an absurdity to suppose such tempers of mind desirable in themselves.... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1864 - 598 pagina’s
...first Sermons I said, " I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted,...its religion than at present it shows itself to be." I added, of course, that it would be an absurdity to suppose such tempers of mind desirable in themselves.... | |
 | Members of the Evangelical Alliance - 1864 - 1272 pagina’s
...says in one of his sermons, " from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the countiy were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more...its religion than at present it shows itself to be." But the sentiment is morbid and exaggerated. Superstition, bigotry, gloom, fierceness, are under no... | |
 | 1864 - 990 pagina’s
...sermons I said, ' I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to the country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in religion than at present it shows itself to be.' . . In conséquence of a passage in the Arian History,... | |
 | 1865 - 476 pagina’s
...return, he said, " I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to the country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted,...religion, than at present it shows itself to be." The corrector of the press bore these strong epithets till he got to " more fierce," and then he put in... | |
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I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be. 
