 Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit that the reverence paid to them in former. days' was unreasonable and excessive ; that credulity and ignorance have in many instances falsified the actions imputed to them ; that enthusiasm has magnified...  Life and Letters of Edmund J. Armstrong - Page 225by Edmund John Armstrong - 1877 - 565 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1848 - 482 pages
...coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped? — Sangnis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit that the...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Surely it is a thing not to be set aside or forgotten, that generous... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ? — Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum I We may admit that the reverence paid to them in former...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Thoroughly and practically convinced as we are of the truth of these... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1857 - 470 pages
...look coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ? — Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Surely it is a thing not to be set aside or forgotten, that generous... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 474 pages
...look coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ? — Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? " Thoroughly and practically convinced as we are of the truth of... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1859 - 432 pages
...coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ?—Sauguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit that the...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Thoroughly and practically convinced as we are of the truth of these... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 506 pages
...who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ? — Bangui? marlyrum semen Chrislianorum ! We may admit that the reverence paid to them in former...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? " Thoroughly and practically convinced as we are of the truth of... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...look coldly upon the effigies of those who sowed the seed of the harvest which we have reaped ? — Sanguis martyrum semen Christianorum ! We may admit...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Thoroughly and practically convinced as we are of the truth of these... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1861 - 92 pages
...martyrs. Says Mrs. Jameson, in her ' Sacred and Legendary Art,' — a work of sterling discrimination : " We may admit that the reverence paid to them in former...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful and the true ? Surely it is a thing not to be set aside or forgotten, that generous... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1865 - 446 pages
...that the reverence paid to them in former days was unreasonable and excessive ; that credulity aud ignorance have in many instances falsified the actions...superstitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot also the beautiful aud the true ? Surely it is a thing not to be set aside or forgotten, that generous... | |
 | Christianity - 1849 - 528 pages
...instances falsified ' the actions imputed to them ; that enthusiasm has magnified their numbers ' beyond belief; that when the communion with martyrs was associated...passion for relics led to ' a thousand abuses, and a belief in their intercession to a thousand super' stitions. But why, in uprooting the false, uproot... | |
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