 | Arminianism - 1877 - 1004 pages
...highest pattern of virtue, bnt the strongest incentive to its practice ; and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.'... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments and conditions .... and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists."... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 446 pages
...highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 450 pages
...highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 460 pages
...said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. Tlns has indeed been the wellspring of whatever is best and purest in the Christian life. Amid all... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - History - 1871 - 552 pages
...highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive to its practice; and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhortations of moralists.... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice* and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple...moralists. This has indeed been the wellspring of whatever has been best and purest in the Christian life. Amid all the sins and failings ; amid all the priestcraft,... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - Apologetics - 1872 - 292 pages
...highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence, that it may be truly said, that the simple...than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all tho exhortations of moralists." I am ready to accept Mr. Lecky's statement as the foundation of my... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...regeneration for which the world is for ever indebted to him. ' The simple record,' as Mr. Lecky says, ' of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of the philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.... | |
 | Christian life - 1873 - 930 pages
...record of those three brief years of active life has done more to soften, to civilise, and to regenerate mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and. all the exhortations of moralists. He has been himself the wellspring and "the fount of whatever is best and purest in the Christian life.... | |
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... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. 
