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" It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he 25 professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or... "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 286
1849
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1841 - 836 pages
...principle of our nature is imagined to lie, even by the most orthodox. Here is his idea of religion — It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...chief fact with regard to him ; a man's, or a nation "f men's. By religion I do not mean here the churchtreed which he professes, the articles of faith...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1880 - 506 pages
...idea with ineffable scorn. " In every sense," he says, with accumulated emphasis, " In every sense, a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man's or a nation's. By religion I do not mean the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 7

1842 - 512 pages
...poison dews, are going and as good as gone." He considers " a man's religion, in every sense, to be the chief fact with regard to him : a man's, or a...nation of men's. By religion, I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign : not this wholly, in many...
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pages
...contradiction it is ourselves, and not the thing, we maintain." WHAT IS A MAN'S RELIGION? NOT the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or deeds otherwise assert ; not this wholly ; in many cases not this at all. We see men of all kinds of...
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Papers of an undergraduate, a selection from the MSS. of W. T. Edwards [ed ...

William Edwards (of Camberwell) - 1862 - 178 pages
...: — " A. man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or otherwise assert. We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1867 - 972 pages
...which we can only give a few extracts. In his first lecture, on " The Hero as Divinity," he says, — " It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and in words or otherwise...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 10

Henry Allon - 1849 - 588 pages
...believe, what they nearly all professed to believe, was the great object of his life's hard labour. The place assigned by Mr. Carlyle to the religious...to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion 1 do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign, and...
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The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 pages
...not exhaust my subject but so much as break ground on it ! At all events, I must mafc the attempt. It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the ehiei fact with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed...
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Penn Monthly, Volume 3

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pages
...which he considers truth and that which he calls superstition and error. As Carlyle has written : " It is well said in every sense that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. By religion, I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he...
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... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons ...

Wilbur Moorehead Smith - 1918 - 402 pages
...other devotional acts performed in honor of the supreme God." — Century Dictionary. " It has been well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is...with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's." — Carlyle. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, thai we worship God in spirit and in truth....
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