 ... the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so...  Ancient Religion and Modern Thought - Page 92by William Samuel Lilly - 1884 - 371 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Bradbury Chetwood - 1927 - 104 lehte
...idolatries, the corruption, the dreary hopeless irreligion — all this is a vision to dizzy and appall and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound...mystery which is absolutely beyond human solution. ' ' * In the second passage the change of movement is plainer. It occurs three distinct times and is... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 lehte
...history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ... all this is a vision to dizzy and appal; and inflicts...mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution." 9 The cadences, like the sentiments, had been in the mouths of many generations of homilists. This... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 lehte
...fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, "having no hope and without God in the world,"2 — all this is a vision to dizzy and appal ; and inflicts...mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution. What shall be said to this heart-piercing, reason-bewildering fact? I can only answer, that either... | |
 | Graham Greene - 1992 - 212 lehte
...the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, "having no hope, and without...mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution. What should be said to this heart-piercing reason-bewildering fact? I can only answer that either there... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 lehte
...the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, "having no hope and without...mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution. What shall be said to this heart-piercing, reason-bewildering fact? I can only answer, that either... | |
 | Isabel Burton, Lady Isabel Burton - 1999 - 704 lehte
...the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, " having no hope and without God in the world " — all this is a vision to dissy and appal, and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery which is absolutely without... | |
 | W. D. Davies - 1999 - 352 lehte
...if from unreasoning elements not towards final causes" and "a vision to dizzy and appall . . . which inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution" (italics added).89 This calls not for despair, but for eternal vigilance against all the social and... | |
 | Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 lehte
...then FD Maurice. Faced with the problem of evil in the world which 'inflicts LESLIE STEPHEN CH. VI upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution,' John Henry Newman declared that uninstructed reason could never solve the difficulty. Logic by itself... | |
 | George Levine - 2002 - 344 lehte
...theology's conclusion that the world gives evidence of design: rather, it "is a vision to dizzy and appall; and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound...mystery, which is absolutely beyond human solution." 13 Stylistically, the difference manifests itself in that tone of absolute spiritual certitude. The... | |
 | William L. Roth - 2002 - 290 lehte
...irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully, yet exactly described in the Apostle 's words, 'having no hope and without God in the world; ' all this is a vision too dizzy and appalling, and inflicts upon the mind the sense of profound mystery which is absolutely... | |
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