 ... the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind...  The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? - Page 1by F. F. Bruce - 2003 - 149 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1877 - 1004 pages
...only the highest pattern of virtue, bnt the strongest incentive to its practice ; and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that...mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.' — Lecky, History of Morals, vol. ii., p. 9. Finally, Christianity... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments and conditions .... and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that...mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists." What can be a grander office than that of unfolding the divine... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 446 pages
...not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that...mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This has indeed been the wellspring of whatever is best and purest... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 444 pages
...not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that...mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This has indeed been the wellspring of whatever is best and purest... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - History - 1871 - 552 pages
...been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive to its practice; and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that...mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhortations of moralists. This has, indeed, been the well-spring of whatever is best and purest... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...nations, temperaments, and conditions, has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice* and has exerted so deep...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - Apologetics - 1872 - 292 pages
...only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the highest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence, that it may be truly said, that...years of active life, has done more to regenerate and soften mankind, than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all tho exhortations of moralists."... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...solennia. firjKeri o.aftftarifnvres, a\\a Kara KvpiaKrjv farjv £iavT(S, says Ignatins, ad lWagnes., c. ix. influence, that it may be truly said that the simple...years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations ,of moralists. This... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...regeneration for which the world is for ever indebted to him. ' The simple record,' as Mr. Lecky says, ' of three short years of active life has done more...and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of the philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. This has, indeed, been the wellspring of whatever... | |
 | Christian life - 1873 - 930 pages
...life, but has been himself the strongest incentive to its imitation; and has exercised upon mankind so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the record of those three brief years of active life has done more to soften, to civilise, and to regenerate... | |
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