 | 1847 - 760 páginas
...religious convictions, that awakened his mental faculties. Had his convictions slept, his whole mind would have remained intellectually what the great bulk of the common English still are. But, as the case happened, the tremendous blow dealt by revealed truth at the door of his conscience... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 páginas
...turmoil of his religious convictions that awakened his mental faculties. Had his convictions slept, the whole mind would have slept with them, and he...intellectually what the great bulk of the common English still are; but, as the case happened, the tremendous blows dealt by revealed truth at the door of his conscience... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 páginas
...turmoil of his religious convictions that awakened his mental faculties. Had his convictions slept, the whole mind would have slept with them, and he...intellectually what the great bulk of the common English still are ; but, as the case happened, the tremendous blows dealt by revealed truth at the door of his conscience... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 páginas
...turmoil of his religious convictions that awakened his mental faculties. Had his convictions slept, the whole mind would have slept with them, and he...intellectually what the great bulk of the common English people are, — viz., good easy souls, taking a pipe post prandiwm, sliding down into a comfortable... | |
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... Had the tinker of Elstow continued to be throughout life what he was in his early youth, — a profane, irreligious man, — he would have lived and died an obscure and illiterate one. It was the wild turmoil of his religious convictions that awakened... 