 ... the worst that can be said of it is, that it is supererogation — common sense may, according to their ideas, be pleaded against the practice, but surely not conscience.  The Quarterly review - Page 5131834Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 558 pages
...but the more slightly he esteems them, the less he can object to them on the score of troubling A is conscience. If, indeed, there be any sect believing...the very phrase ' conscientious scruples' commands sr» much sympathy and respect, that we are anxious to show that it cannot be applied, in its ordinary... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 564 pages
...offended if the religious sanction were to be withheld. In different countries in which marriage is by law a civil contract, there are different forms — and...the very phrase ' conscientious scruples' commands sn much sympathy and respect, that we are anxious to show that it cannot be applied, in its ordinary... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1837 - 616 pages
...Apostle then does not resolve it into supposed first principles that would exhibit VOL. H. I its guilt. The worst that can be said of it is that it is xin, and is so in excess. I'. 14. — For we know that the lam is spiritual: but lam earnaif told under... | |
 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...total indifference to every species of worship. The point is here, — idolatry is not a bad thing. The worst that can be said of it is, that it is a poor quality of what, in itself, is really a good thing. It is merely a crude and imperfect attempt... | |
 | Medicine - 1845 - 840 pages
...potass in spasmodic asthma, a disease so intractable under ordinary remedies, is well worthy of trial. The worst that can be said of it is that it is, perhaps, too cheap and simple, and too easy of application. (18.) Pulmonary disease, it is well known»... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1847 - 780 pages
...itself. The Apostle then does not resolve it into supposed first principles that would exhibit its guilt. The worst that can be said of it is that it is sin, and is so in excess. Here, and in the preceding verses from the 7th, Paul does not speak merely... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...correlative to the highest powers of the other, is a notion perfectly agreeable to our tastes and prejudices; the worst that can be said of it is, that it is not true. The fact being that as far aa moral and intellectual perfection are concerned the tropics... | |
 | George Glenny - Gardening - 1860 - 104 pages
...and especially poor ones — that is, districts where the land is poor and gravelly or sandy ; and the worst that can be said of it is, that it is a useful crop as a change everywhere, though not so much grown as it might be. It is a strong growing... | |
 | Henrietta Wilson - 1860 - 164 pages
...addition of a footman ? I suppose this is what is called harmless gossip, and it may be that sometimes the worst that can be said of it is that it is frivolous and idle ; but that is bad enough, and I fear it too often proceeds from, as it certainly... | |
 | James Walker - Sermons, American - 1861 - 420 pages
...benevolence, because it hurts our feelings to hurt the feelings of other people : so that, after all, the •worst that can be said of it is, that it is an excess of benevolence. But let us examine this plea a little more closely. It is, you will observe,... | |
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