Essays by the Late Mark Pattison: Sometime Rector of Lincoln College, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1889 - Church and state |
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Page 102 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 360 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 57 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 360 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 58 - Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Page 83 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 142 - ... as much the rule and law as the subject of their discourse. And do you reproach me with my education in this place, and with my relation to this most respectable body, which I shall always esteem my greatest advantage and my highest honour?
Page 226 - Hie liber est in quo quaerit sua dogmata quisque Invenit et pariter dogmata quisque sua.
Page 403 - Swift divertit et instruit aux dépens du genre humain. Que j'aime la hardiesse anglaise! que j'aime les gens qui disent ce qu'ils pensent ! C'est ne vivre qu'à demi que de n'oser penser qu'à demi.
Page 93 - It is as easy to close the eyes of the mind as those of the body : And the former is more frequently done with wilfulness, and yet not attended to, than the latter ; the actions of the mind being more quick and transient, than those of the senses.