 | 1877 - 1004 pages
...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 than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.' — Lecky, History of Morals, vol. ii., p. 9. Finally, Christianity... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1860 - 570 pages
...with complimentary iteration in Christian lands to-day, that his influence is "greater than that of all the disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists," nor would intellectual heathenism crumble before it. He has jurisdiction as to spiritual reality. He... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...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 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 - 1869 - 446 pages
...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 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 - 1869 - 444 pages
...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 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 - 1869 - 450 pages
...life has done more to regenerate and to soften 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 in the Christian life. Amid all the sins and failings, amid all the priestcraft... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...world is for ever indebted to him. ' The simple record,' as Mr. Lecky says, ' of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate 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... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...life has done more to regenerate and soften 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 in the Christian life. In the character and example of its Founder, Christianity... | |
 | 1923 - 826 pages
...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 than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists." ' ' Whether the spectacle of an ideal human character alone has... | |
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... the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. 
