 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 Seiten
...search after it, that his powers are extended, in which alone his ever growing perfection consists. ... If God held all truth in his right hand, and in his left hand simply the ever active endeavour after truth—even with the condition that I should ever... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 Seiten
...search after it, that his powers are extended, in which alone his ever growing perfection consists. ... If God held all truth in his right hand, and in his left hand simply the ever active endeavour after truth — even with the condition that I should ever... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 Seiten
...search after it that his powere are extended, in which alone his ever growing perfection consists. * * * If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left hand simply the ever active endeavour after truth — even with the condition that I should ever... | |
 | Helen Zimmern - 1878 - 476 Seiten
...in which alone his ever-growing perfection exists. Possession makes him calm, indolent, proud — ' If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left the ever-living desire for truth, although with the condition that I should remain in error for... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1879 - 618 Seiten
...strengthened, in which alone his ever-growing perfection exists. Possession makes him calm, indolent, proud. If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left the ever-living desire for truth ; if He said to me, Choose, I should, even though with the condition... | |
 | Mary Jefferson Bolling Teusler - 1896 - 272 Seiten
...strengthened, in which alone his ever-growing perfection exists. Possession makes him calm, indolent, proud. If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left the ever-living desire for truth; if He said to me, Choose, I should, even though with the condition... | |
 | Gustav Gottlieb Wenzlaff - 1909 - 282 Seiten
...protest against this attitude. scholar's attitude is well expressed in what Lessing says of himself: "If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left only the everliving impulse for truth; if He said to me, ' Choose/ I should, even though with the condition... | |
 | 1911 - 854 Seiten
...perfection in girls, but we should all strive to better ourselves. I agree with Lessing who said, ; ' If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left nothing but the ever restless instinct for truth, though with the condition of forever and ever... | |
 | 1882 - 914 Seiten
...of the Lessing-like seekers after truth he seems to be, who would say with the author of Laocoön, " If God held all truth in his right hand, and in his...and say, Father, give ; keep the truth for Thyself aloue." Charks Wood, IN VENICE. " YES, we came over again in February, and have been here in Venice... | |
 | Hans Blumenberg - 1985 - 718 Seiten
...which he was the librarian), in 1774 and 1777. They generated a protracted storm of controversy. b. "If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left the everlasting striving after truth, so that I should always and everlastingly be mistaken, and... | |
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If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left the everlasting striving after truth, so that I should always and everlastingly be mistaken, and said to me, "Choose," with humility I would pick on the left hand and say, "Father, grant me that.... 
