He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever he will be too profound and largeminded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity.... Talks on Talking - Page 155by Grenville Kleiser - 1916 - 156 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1859 - 382 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and largeminded...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent ; he honours the ministers of religion, and he is contented with declining its mysteries without assailing... | |
| Museum and English journal of education - 1869 - 496 pages
...England. God's peave ! I would not lose so great an honour.' " No 7.— Book IV., pases 363-4.—' lie respects piety and devotion ; he even supports institutions...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent. Not that he may not hold a religion too, in his own way, even when he is not a Christian. Sometimes... | |
| John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Anglo-Catholicism - 1874 - 484 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or... | |
| Conduct of life - 1875 - 780 pages
...knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he could be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or act against it ; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and... | |
| Jacob Youde William Lloyd - Wales - 1882 - 442 pages
...their mistakes, he knows the weakness of human reason as well as its province aud its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...beautiful, or useful to which he does not assent ; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or... | |
| Jacob Youde William Lloyd - Powys (Wales) - 1882 - 470 pages
...their mistakes, he knows the weakness of human reason as well as its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...religion or to act against it ; he is too wise to bo a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion ; he even supports institutions... | |
| John Henry Newman - Education, igher - 1895 - 304 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent ; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or... | |
| John Henry Newman - Education, igher - 1895 - 302 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his in2 fidelity. He respects piety and devotion ; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful,... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1899 - 598 pages
...mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits^ If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded...beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent ; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or... | |
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