 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 sider
...heathen.' Often it is used with powerful effect, giving to the capital images the emphatic positions; as, 'Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High.' Some of his periods are cumbrous and intricate, but in general they roll melodiously on, with the serene... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sider
...heathen.' Often it is used with powerful effect, giving to the capital images the emphatic positions; as, 'Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the dojugs of the Most High.' Some of his periods are cumbrous and intricate, but in general they roll... | |
 | 1883 - 312 sider
...will, "unknowable." But it required no Agnostic to tell us that. We remember the words of Hooker : " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High, whom though to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 714 sider
...conduct. Yet have I found thy works ungodly, and thy dffiHgs vile and abominable. Bait. 3. Dispensations. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High. Hooter. 4. Stir; bustle; tumult. Dolt (doit), n. [D. duit, the origin of which is doubtful. Mahn derives... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1884 - 362 sider
...known beyond anything that can be learned of Him on earth. Here, as Hooker has eloquently observed, ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...know that we know Him not, as indeed He is, neither, indeed, can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him, when we confess without confession,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 sider
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Richard Cowper - 1884 - 468 sider
...strenuously as any Agnostic : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man " (says Hooker) " to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; Whom...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | 1884 - 470 sider
...strenuously as any Agnostic : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man " (says Hooker) " to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; Whom...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | Henry Cotterill - 1884 - 144 sider
...cannot lead to trustworthy conclusions ; that in the oft-quoted words of Hooker: " Although to know God be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet...is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence is our silence, when we confess without confession that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above... | |
 | 1884 - 868 sider
...tartness. We prefer, however, to permit our attention to rest upon such noble passages as these : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know bo life, and joy to make mention of His name ; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that wo know Him... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know... 
