 Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last, not always by the...  Medical Times - Page 651870Full view - About this book
 | James Anthony Froude - Church history - 1868 - 458 pages
...little of the past, and nothing of the future, why waste our time over so barren a study 'P First, it is a voice for ever sounding across the centuries the...every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last : not always by the chief offenders,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 444 pages
...nations, and its dread thunders still roll across the centuries. " Opinions alter," it has been said, " manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written upon the tablets of eternity. For every false word, or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...are tuned to a higher and nobler key."* "It is a voice for ever sounding across the centuries the law of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change,...the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity ."t The great epoch of moral change in England, if not in Europe, was coincident with the Tudor dynasty,... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 pages
...historians has declared, History is "a voice sounding across the centuries the eternal distinction of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change,...moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." Now, the question of immortality is one with which this moral order has got to reckon. But where is... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...the most interesting. ****** What then are the lessons of history ? It is a voice sounding forever across the centuries, the laws of right and wrong....every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offender,... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...most interesting. ' * * * * * * What then are the lessons of history ? It is a voice sounding forever across the centuries, the laws of right and wrong....every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last ; not always by the chief offender,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - English essays - 1873 - 686 pages
...the past, and nothing of the future, why waste our time over so barren a study ? First, it is a Toice for ever sounding across the centuries the laws of...every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last: not always by the chief offenders,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...or vicious, commendable or faulty. JONATHAN EDWARDS. What can laws do without morals ? B. FRANKLIN. The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity....every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last. JA FROUDE: On Great Subjects... | |
 | George Putnam - Sermons, American - 1878 - 392 pages
...prohibitions and penalties God hath said it, and this law is the surest of facts. As has been well said, " Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written upon the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...or vicious, commendable or faulty. JONATHAN EDWARDS. What can laws do without morals ? 13. FRANKLIN. The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelly and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last. JA FROUDE: On Great Subjects... | |
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