 | John Ray - Creation - 1714 - 430 pages
...write fomething m Divinity, having written fo much on other Subjects : For being not permitted to ferve the Church with my Tongue in Preaching, I know not but it may be my Duty to ferve it with my Hand by Writing. And I have made Choice of this Subjett, as thinking myfelf beft qualified... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...myself to be obliged to write something in divinity, having written so much on other subjects ; for being not permitted to serve the church with my tongue...may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing ; and I have made choice of this subject, as thinking myself best qualified to treat of it. If what... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 420 pages
...myself to be obliged to write something in divinity, having written so much on other subjects ; for being not permitted to serve the church with my tongue...may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing ; and I have made choice of this subject, as thinking myself best qualified to treat of it. If what... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...myself to be obliged to write something in divinity, having written so much on other subjects ; for being not permitted to serve the church with my tongue...may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing ; and I have made choice of this subject, as thinking myself best qualified to treat of it. If what... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1846 - 800 pages
...Mr. Ray's modest and beautiful remark in the Preface to his " Wisdom of God in the Creation :" — " Being not permitted to serve the Church with my tongue...may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing." It may be remarked, that the art of constructing sun-dials appears to have been a very favourite pursuit... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pages
...Mr. Ray's modest and beautiful remark in the Preface to his " Wisdom of God in the Creation :" — " Being not permitted to serve the Church with my tongue...may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing." It may be remarked, that the art of constructing sun-dials appears to have been a very favourite pursuit... | |
 | 1846 - 282 pages
...write something on divinity, having written so much on other subjects ; for not being permitted (1691) to serve the church with my tongue in preaching, I know not but it may be my duty to serve it by my hand in writing." Of this work it is not too much to say that, however inferior it may be in... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...' Being not permitted,' to use his own words, ' to serve the church with my tongue in preaching, 1 know not but it may be my duty to serve it with my hand by writing.' With this feeling he composed bis treatise entitled ' The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1848 - 876 pages
...could appreciate, his abstruser claims to eminence. He says himself, with reference to it, ' Not being permitted to serve the church with my tongue in preaching, I know not but that it may be my duty to serve it with my hand in writing; and I have made choice of this subject,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...myself to be obliged to write something in divinity, having written so much on other subjects; for being not permitted to serve the church with my tongue...not but it may be my duty to serve it with my hand in writing; and I have made choice of this subject, as thinking myself best qualified to treat of it.'... | |
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By virtue of my function I suspect myself to be obliged to write something in divinity, having written so much on other subjects ; for being not permitted to serve the church with my tongue in preaching, I know not but it may be my duty to serve it with... 
