 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - 820 pages
...University," and Whewell's 'Bridgewater Treatise' on Astronomy and General Physics. Carlyle has said that " a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him ; " and as in this age of freethought, science is too often regarded as the enemy of religion, I should... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pages
...every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? " "It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...with regard to him. A man's or a nation of men's." Note the special part each one had in the progress of mankind : ADAM, EVE, CAIN, ABEL, JABAL, JUBAL,... | |
 | Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von) - 1876 - 342 pages
...the .second, something to reverence.' — George Eliot. ~ » 'A MAN'S religion,' says Mr. Carlyle, 'is the chief fact with regard to him — a man's or a nation of men's ; ' and he goes on to add that he does not thereby mean the thing the man outwardly professes, but... | |
 | Mary gräfin von Bothmer - 1877 - 358 pages
...love ; the second, something to reverence.' — George Eliot. 'A MAN'S religion,' says Mr. Carlyle, 'is the chief fact with regard to him — a man's or a nation of men's ; ' and he goes on to add that he does not thereby mean the thing the man outwardly professes, but... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1877 - 388 pages
...PICCADILLY. MANCHESTER : CORPORATION STRBET. BRIGHTON ; WESTBRN ROAI). PREFACE. IT has been well said that " a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him." " The thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations... | |
 | Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - 1878 - 914 pages
...too, as discovering the true character and nature of the people to be governed, for as Carlyle says, " A man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him ; " a man's or a nation of men's." And he goes on to explain : " By religion I do not mean* the Church-creed which he pro•• fesses,... | |
 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1878 - 424 pages
...prayer of a dying saint is, ' God be merciful to me a sinner.' 'A man's religion,' writes Carlyle, 'is the chief fact with regard to him — a man's or a nation of men's ; ' and he goes on to show that by religion he does not mean the thing which a man outwardly professes,... | |
 | Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 pages
...of what he calls religion, for of his creed we know nothing, though of his religious faith much. " It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion...man's or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean the Church Creed which he professes, the Articles of Faith which he will sign and in words or otherwise... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - 1879 - 278 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... | |
 | 1881 - 490 pages
...negative mood, but with a vivid experience and seizure of soul that made them his own. Carlyle has said that " a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. The thing a man does practically lay to heart concerning his vital relation to this mysterious universe... | |
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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... 
