 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...this man, indeed, deserves the name of an anthor, his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity that, if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Dr. Lowth said that Hooker, in correctness, propriety, and purity of style, had hardly been surpassed... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 382 pages
...This man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence from age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that, if the rest be like this, they shall last until the last fire consume all learning." But it must be admitted that the rest, however great their... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author, his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...learning." Nor was this high, the only testimony and commenda. tions given to his books, for at the first .coming of King James into this kingdom, he inquired... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author, his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...learning." Nor was this high, the only testimony and commenda. tions given to his books, for at the first coming of King James into this kingdom, he inquired... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Vernon Blackburn - 1895 - 344 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...the first coming of King James into this kingdom, he inquired of the Archbishop Whitgift for his friend Mr. Hooker, that writ the books of Church polity... | |
 | William Macdonald Sinclair - 1896 - 408 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." King James I., on coming to England in succession to Elizabeth, asked Archbishop Whitgift for the author... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 502 pages
...indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them the seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this,...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." In the same charming biography (Isaac Walton's) of the great scholar, which has become a classic among... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity that, if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning." Richard Hooker was born in or near the city of Exeter m 1553, °f parents who were noted for virtue... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 pages
...this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...for his friend Mr. Hooker, that writ the books of Church-polity ; to which the answer was, that he died a year before Queen Elizabeth, who received the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 612 pages
...understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be...last till the last fire shall consume all learning. Of Hooker's style, perhaps the most remarkable feature is the singular calmness and dignity with which... | |
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There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man indeed deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age ; for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be... 
