 | Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...Discourse " at Glasgow, the celebrated sentence which has given rise to so much discussion. DISCIPCLUS. " The great truth has finally gone forth to all the...earth, That man shall no more render account to man fur his belief, over which he has himself no control. Henceforward nothing shall prevail upon us to... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 150 pages
...in ignorance. — It is a truth, that the principle whieh leads men to judge and treat each other, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions,...accidental and involuntary coincidence of their opinions, is a vile principle ; — although room might obviously enough be found here for certain questions... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 152 pages
...in ignorance. — It is a truth, that the principle which leads men to judge and treat each other, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions,...accidental and involuntary coincidence of their opinions, is a vile principle ; — although room might obviously enough be found here for certain questions... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...Students, of that University, and therefore adopted by tliat learned and highly respectable body ; " The great truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAS SHALL J»O MORE RENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH BF. HAS HIMSELF NO coNTRouL. Henceforward,... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 544 pages
...blindfold in ignorance. It is a truth, that the principle which leads men to judge and treat each other, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions,...accidental and involuntary coincidence of their opinions, is a vile principle. It is a truth that man should not render account to man for his belief. And, in... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 698 pages
...Franklin and Watt belonged, have their thoughts turned towards philosophy ; but the order of disco, verers and inventors will still be a select few; and the...forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL MO MORE BENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR BIS BELIEF, OV2R WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL. Henceforward, nothing... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 702 pages
...admiregenius, and able to bestow upon its possessors an immortal fame. To those, too, who feel alarmed aa statesmen, and friends of existing establishments,...their actions, but according to the accidental and mv»luntary coincidence of their opinions. The Great Truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1827 - 986 pages
...blindfold in ignorance. It is a truth that the principle which leads men to judge and treat each other, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions,...accidental and involuntary coincidence of their opinions, is a vile principle. It U a truth, that man should not render account to man for his belief. And in... | |
 | 1833 - 480 pages
...and telling deaf. • His words, in his • Inaugural Discourse,' p. 47, are : " Ttu great truth ha* finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, that man duill no longer render account to man for belief, over uhich hi hat no control. Henceforward, nothing... | |
 | Henry William Wilberforce - Oxford movement - 1835 - 56 pages
...judging and treating their fellow- creatures, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions, hut according to the accidental and involuntary coincidence...all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL NO MORE RENDEB ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL. Henceforward, nothing shall... | |
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As men will no longer suffer themselves to be led blindfold in ignorance, so will they no more yield to the vile principle of judging and treating their fellow-creatures, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions, but according to the accidental... 
