...specious arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a preient triumph ; for the light of absolute truth on moral...dazzling to be sustained by the diseased optics of those hahituated to darkness. And hence we explain not only the many gross delusions of the fathers, their...

...is excessive to use those arguments which will tell, at the moment, upon the crowd of bystanders, in preference to those which will approve themselves...upon popular conceits in science that have long since been exploded, — but also their occasional unchristian tempers. To contend with an unprincipled and...

...arguments, and all artifices of dialectic subtlety, he must renounce the hopes of a present trinmph ; for the light of absolute truth on moral or on spiritual...upon popular conceits in science that have long since heen exploded, but also their occasional unchristian tempers. To contend with an unprincipled and malicious...

...by-standers, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If a man denied himself all specious arguments and...the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness, &c. Blackwood, 49. " Such are the folios of Schoolmen and Theologians. Let us preserve them in our...

...composed in various proportions of sceptical inquirers, obstinate opponents, and malignant scoffers. Less than an apostle is unequal to the suppression...fantastic etymologies, or upon popular conceits in Bcience that have long since exploded, but also their occasional unchristian tempers. To contend with...

...baffle and confound the unprincipled opponent, rather than such as would satisfy the earnest inquirer. If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and...optics of those habituated to darkness. And hence I explain not only the many gross delusions of the fathers, their sophisms, their errors of fact and...

...baffle and confound the unprincipled opponent, rather than such as would satisfy the earnest inquirer. If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and...optics of those habituated to darkness. And hence I explain not only the many gross delusions of the fathers, their sophisms, their errors of fact and...

...sensibilities,—scorn being too naturally met by retorted scorn. And then again, the light of absolute truth is " too dazzling to be sustained by the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness." Pilato interroganti de vcritate, Christus non respondit, which is Englished by Bishop Taylor, " When...

...by-standers, in preference to those which will approve themselves ultimately to enlightened disciples. If a man denied himself all specious arguments and...the diseased optics of those habituated to darkness, &c. Blaekwood, 49. " Such are the folios of Schoolmen and Theologians. Let us preserve them in our...

...baffle and confound the unprincipled opponent, rather than such as would satisfy the earnest inquirer. If a man denied himself all specious arguments, and...optics of those habituated to darkness. And hence I explain not only the many gross delusions of the Fathers, their sophisms, their errors of fact and...