| Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...think it quaint to read Oliver Cromwell appealing to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken," or Edward Taylor in "Meditation 8," saying "God's Tender Bowells run out streams of grace,"* or Thomas... | |
| John Algeo - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006
...to keep in mind the wise words of Oliver Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." The author intones those words as a mantra. Sources of comparative statistics and citations Statistics... | |
| Michael Dirda - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 204 pages
...course of action, no matter how committed to any belief, remember Oliver Cromwell's plaintive entreaty: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." HISTORY ON DEADLINE As Terry Pratchett reminds us in one of his comic novels, "the truth will make... | |
| Michael Bérubé - Education, Higher - 2006 - 382 pages
...not in the same ballpark, the same league, even the same fuckin' sport as Oliver Cromwell's immortal "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Yet in one way it is superior to Cromwell's plea, for it leaves open the possibility that Jules himself... | |
| Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - Business & Economics - 2010 - 637 pages
...even to embrace together with you the self-same truth, if it be the truth. — Richard Hooker, 1593 I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. — Oliver Cromwell, 1650 It must be acknowledged that some of the following discourses are very abstruse... | |
| Richard Freeman, Antony Stone - Psychology - 2006 - 176 pages
...to what we can know, although we are fallible. In the end, the words were said by Oliver Cromwell, 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ. Think it possible you may be mistaken.' You may be surprised that an expert in physics is talking about science being very human and judgments... | |
| Oliver Freudenreich - Medical - 2007 - 292 pages
...clinical situations in which you want to confirm that a patient is at the extremes of drug levels. "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." — Oliver Cromwell, Lord protector of England, 1599-1658 "1 don't think this is related to my medicine,"... | |
| Steven Pinker - Psychology - 2007 - 522 pages
..."Cross my heart." Perhaps the most creative was Oliver Cromwell, who wrote to the Church of Scotland, "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Even if these oaths aren't seen as literally having the power to bring down divine penalties for noncompliance,... | |
| Richard S. Tedlow - Chief executive officers - 2007 - 612 pages
...quotation from a letter Oliver Cromwell wrote to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1650: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." His response: "That . . . quote is priceless!"21 He knew it applies to everyone, including him, who... | |
| Arnold Goldberg - Psychology - 2008 - 144 pages
...Cox confessed that our best-informed decisions may be wrong, and he quoted Oliver Cromwell as saying, "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken" (Cox 2004, 296). Cox felt that the best he could hope for in teaching his students about moral choices... | |
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