 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...nothing: he is only soperadding to what he already had. But a convert from popery to protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as...in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting V The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many and eminent instances, some of... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 476 pages
...nothing : he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as...in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." Boswell, the Presbyterian, adds, " The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...nothing: he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything that he retains—there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...nothing: he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as...in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many and eminent instances, some of... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1854 - 466 pages
...nothing : he is only superudding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as...of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere'and lasting.' We may trace to the same source, namely, to the pleasurable ideas and emotions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...nothing : he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as...such a conversion — that it can hardly be sincere and lasting."' The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many > Dr. Simon Patrick (afterwards... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...nothing : he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism \ k ] ] =7 㽞 g^ S_ ﭗ ꮍ ܲ ~ |} m Y ?]... _.? ] C q Ūk q u D o?g S xp0+ 4g Nk 5 k .L -i and lasting." ' The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many feels that he Is free to choose.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1880 - 1118 pages
...a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up as much of -what he has held as sacred as anything he retains — there is so much laceration of mind...in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." — (Boswell's " Life of Johnson," ad ann. 1769.) I go further, and think that in any... | |
 | Belgravia - 1871 - 558 pages
...her, as he did once with admirable judgment, what results usually attend such a change, and that ' there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting.' In the case of the average Italian or Frenchman, his religion sits so lightly on him,... | |
 | 1868 - 902 pages
...nothing : he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything he retains ; there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion that it can hardly be... | |
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A man who is converted from Protestantism to Popery, may be sincere : he parts with nothing: he is only superadding to what' he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he... 
