 ... struggle with darkness and error, is, in this respect, like the Church of Christ — that is, it is always and essentially invisible to the fleshly eye. The pillars of this church are human champions ; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to...  Memorials: And Other Papers - Side 143af Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 836 sider
...its weapons are great truths so sliHped as to meet the shifting forms of error — its armouries are piled and marshalled in human memories — its cohesion...and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious co-operation of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 362 sider
...in discipline, in childlike docility — and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will,...for any intervention of the architect. Let me apply nil this to Oxford. Among the four functions commonly recognised by the founders of universities, which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 sider
...its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error — its armories are piled and marshalled in human memories — its cohesion...and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious co-operation of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 358 sider
...; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error ; its armories are piled and marshalled in human memories ; its cohesion...talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonioua cooperation of its several divisions. Thus far, I say, there is no call made out for any... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 476 sider
...; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error ; its armouries are piled and marshalled in human memories ; its cohesion...and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious co-operation of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 492 sider
...; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error ; its armouries are piled and marshalled in human memories ; its cohesion...childlike docility ; and all its triumphs, its pomps, and OXFORD 19 glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 470 sider
...; its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error ; its armouries are piled and marshalled in human memories ; its cohesion...and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious co-operation of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 372 sider
...its weapons are great truths so shaped as to meet the shifting forms of error — its armories are piled and marshalled in human memories — its cohesion...and all its triumphs, its pomps, and glories, must for ever depend upon talent, upon the energies of the will, and upon the harmonious co-operation of... | |
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