 Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide.  Poems - Page 48by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish - 2004 - 292 pages
...Roman Catholic falsehood that it has divine authority to alter the Sabbath to Sunday. The poem read: Halting on crutches of unequal size One leg by truth supported, one by lies, Thus sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing but to lose the race. Twenty-first-century... | |
 | Teach Services - 2005 - 36 pages
...Sept. 23, 1893.] "Halting on crutches of unequal size. One leg by true supported, one by lies, Thus sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing but to lose the race." In the present article we propose to investigate carefully a new (and the last) class of proof assumed... | |
 | 1889 - 584 pages
...just. Thus men go wrong, with an ingenious skill Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will, And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then take it for a guide." Take next his very striking lines on The Power of the Press : " How shall I speak of thee, or thy power... | |
 | 1893 - 460 pages
...be indefensible, self-contradictory, and suicidal. [From the Catholic Mirror of Sept. 23, 1893.] " Halting on crutches of unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by lies, Thus sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing but to lose the race. ' ' In the present... | |
 | William Carlisle - 1825 - 194 pages
...reason. " Thus men go wrong, with an ingenious skill, Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, First put it out, then fake it for a guide : Halting on crutches of unequal size, Oue leg by truth supported, one by lies,... | |
 | 1907 - 946 pages
...action out of the business altogether, but reduces its usefulness pretty much — as did the man who, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, first put it out, then took it for a guide. They say the coupling will not stand for quick action. It seems to me that if... | |
 | New England Railroad Club, Boston - 1906 - 552 pages
...action out of the business altogether, but reduces its usefulness pretty much—as did the man who, with a clear and shining lamp supplied, first put it out, then took it for a guide. They say the coupling will not stand for quick action. It seems to me that if... | |
 | 1880 - 586 pages
...with an ingenious skill, Bend the straightway to their own crooked wijl, And with a clear and burning lamp supplied, First put it out, then, take it for a guide." Thus has the professed Christian world done relative to the precepts of Christ. They first call the... | |
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