 | Thucydides - Greece - 1902 - 384 pages
...steterat, nee eum . . patria majestas sententia depulerat. In Eng. cf. Hooker, Eecles. Pol., 'Whom though to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name.' Johnson, Tour in the Heb., 'We treated her with great respect, which she received as customary and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 pages
...the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Henry Martyn Simmons - Christianity - 1904 - 344 pages
...the same century with Calvin, the revered Richard Hooker wrote : " Our soundest knowledge [of God] is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither...silence, when we confess without confession that his greatness is above our capacity and reach." Spinoza said " to define God is to deny him." A modern... | |
 | William Henry Williams - English drama - 1905 - 600 pages
...co-ordinated relative cf. Hooker, Eccl. Polity, i. I, ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although...know be life, and joy to make mention of his name . . . .' 91. Nor no. Double negative (A. § 406). 103. that '* : should be ' that are,' as the antecedent... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 796 pages
...beginning of the "Ecclesiastical Politу":— Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not tfs indeed he is, neither can know him: and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when... | |
 | James Hutton Mackay - Netherlands - 1911 - 252 pages
...the meaning of its life. Doctrine is not the Beatific Vision. "Of God,"as Hooker says, "oursoundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not, as indeed He is." While retaining the Trinitarian formula, the impression one gets as Scholten and other Dutch scholars... | |
 | Alfred Slater West - English language - 1912 - 364 pages
...core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. 60. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although...know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him. ON ESSAY-WRITING. CONTENTS. PAGE I. Elements of an Essay 303 i. Vocabulary ......... 304 3. Choice... | |
 | Burnett Hillman Streeter - Religion - 1912 - 560 pages
...easy to argue about; " 2 and with Hooker : " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | Religion - 1913 - 136 pages
...men have! — Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, Chicago. IT is dangerous for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High, whom, although to know is life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him... | |
 | Apologetics - 1914 - 564 pages
...easy to argue about ; " 2 and with Hooker : " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, 1 Lot2e, Microcoaniu (ET), ii. pp. 715, 718. 1 Life and Lst tsn, p. 338. and joy to make mention of... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can... 
