 | 1829 - 624 Seiten
...men. Because that which poisons one man, is not likely to be very wholesome to another. To be sure, we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. And a great deal may be said to show that the pure commodity, clarified and doubledistilled, which... | |
 | 1829 - 842 Seiten
...men. Because that which poisons one man, is not likely to be very wholesome to another. To be sure, we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. And a great deal may be said to show that the pure commodity, clarified and doubledistilled, which... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 538 Seiten
...lasciviousness, so often quote. Such persons wrest also the other Scriptures to their own destruction. And are we to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it ? What good thing is not abused ? Yet we do not refuse raiment to the naked, because there are some... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 Seiten
...shameful is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in pur spirit. Let us say, with... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1841 - 434 Seiten
...Church should speak a language which her children, and they only, can understand. At the same time we are not to argue against the use of a thing from its possible abuse. If it is possible that wicked men may profane the Sanctuary with their presence... | |
 | William Jay - 1856 - 650 Seiten
...shameful is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in our spirit. Let us say, with... | |
 | 1860 - 528 Seiten
...literature ? And so with a thousand other such sayings and references— "Extremes meet, sir ;" "You mustn't argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it;" "The exception proves the rule ;" Talleyrand's remark about the use of speech ; Newton gathering pebbles... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1860 - 558 Seiten
...? And so with a thousand other such sayings and references — "Extremes meet, sir ;" "You mustn't argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it;" "The exception proves the rule ;" Talleyrand's remark about the use of speech ; Newton gathering pebbles... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1863 - 272 Seiten
...been poisoned by bad books, and inflammatory publications, if they had not been taught how to read. To argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it is au obvious fallacy ; but the true answer to all such statements is, that instruction is not education,... | |
 | William Jay - 1864 - 703 Seiten
...sLamefu] is it that such an unrivalled endowment should be perverted, or degraded to evil purposes ! But we are not to argue against the use of a thing from the abuse of it. Let us remember that God is to be glorified in our body, as well as in our spirit. Let us say, with... | |
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... following false principles, nothing is more certain than that by an inexorable law of nature true principles will assert their position, and we shall be punished for our mistake by being landed in difficulties greater than we had to contend with at... 
