 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1865 - 480 pages
...of mere polity, by a great remove from it, merely secondary ? Bibhop Butler has very truly said, " It is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon the comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1865 - 482 pages
...of mere polity, by a great remove from it, merely secondary ? Bishop Butler has very truly said, " It is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon the comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider... | |
 | James Manning Winchell Yerrinton, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - Congregational churches - 1866 - 562 pages
...Butler has very truly said, " It is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon the comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all." I must add that it seems to me that this is pre-eminently " the... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - Hymn writers - 1869 - 520 pages
...destroyed by my recoil from Newman's theology and Platonism. So true is that parenthesis of Butler's : " It is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...consider this other of scarce any importance at all," &c. And I think my unwarrantable suspicion of a spirit of reverence was too vehement on account of... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - Hymn writers - 1869 - 562 pages
...destroyed by my recoil from Newman's theology and Platonism. So true is that parenthesis of Butler's : " it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...consider this other of scarce any importance at all," &c. And I think my unwarran table suspicion of a spirit of reverence was too vehement on account of... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1869 - 372 pages
...it is certain we may learn this from his divine application of the passage, in the Gospel. But, as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all: it is highly necessary that we remind ourselves, how great presumption... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 404 pages
...seek it, through the Love of God and man. 1 Cor. xiii.—Bp. Warburton. V. 42.—Not to leave, &c. As it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...importance than the other, to consider this other, as of scarce any importance at all, it is highly necessary that we remind ourselves, how great presumption... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1870 - 372 pages
...it is certain we may learn this from his divine application of the passage, in the Gospel. But, as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all : it is highly necessary that we rewind ourselves, how great presumption... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1870 - 772 pages
...the Lord," that ?» " honourable," and should be a " delight." He who knows what is in man, knew that it is "one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...of greater importance than the other, to consider the other as of scarce any importance nt all"* The superiority of all that is moral and spiritual over... | |
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But, as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon a comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all... 
