 A man who is converted from Protestantism to Popery, may be sincere : he parts with nothing: he is only superadding to what' he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism, gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he...  The Dublin and London magazine - Page 411825Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 630 pages
...Popery may be sincere ; he parts with nothing ; he is only super-adding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held [to be] as sacred as anything he retains, there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 640 pages
...Popery may be sincere ; he parts with nothing ; he is only super-adding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held [to be] as sacred as anything he retains, there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion,... | |
 | John Ayscough - 1918 - 360 pages
...Popery may be sincere : he parts with nothing : he is only super-adding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything that he retains : there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion that it can hardly... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...Popery may be sincere : he parts with nothing : 150 he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held sacred as anything that he retains : there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...Popery may be sincere : he parts with nothing : he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held sacred as anything that he retains : there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 pages
...Popery to Protestantism,' said Dr. Johnson, ' gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything that he retains, there is so much laceration of mind...conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting.' Something of that laceration of mind is discernible in Donne's religious verse : Show me dear Christ... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 pages
...sovereign, and the act cost him some pangs. ) ' A convert from Popery to Protestantism,' said Dr. Johnson, ' gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything that he retains, there is so much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 pages
...Popery may be sincere: he parts with nothing; he is only superadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much...conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." The truth of this reflection may be confirmed by many and eminent instances, some of which will occur... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 pages
...it only tuperadding to what he already had. But a convert from Popery to Protestantism give* up to much of what he has held as sacred as any thing that he retains) there it to much laceration of mind in such a conversion, that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." The... | |
 | 1906 - 728 pages
...But a convert from Popery to Protestantism gives up so much of what he has held as sacred as anything that he retains — there is so much laceration of...conversion — that it can hardly be sincere and lasting." Mrs. Kennicot spoke of her brother, the Reverend Mr. Chamberlayne, who had given up great prospects... | |
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