 It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries, has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments,...  The Evolution of Love - Page 229de Emory Miller - 1907 - 355 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...and of Morals, has felt himself wholly unable to restrain the following burst of admiration : — " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which throughout all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 pages
...striking light the solitary grandeur of the character of Christ as it has been depicted in the Gospels. " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which throughout all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - 1872 - 292 pages
...the peculiar might and energy of Christianity, Mr. Lecky writes as follows (vol. ii. p. 8) : — " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1879 - 1092 pages
...of the " History of Modern Rationalism " and of " European Morals." In the latter work he says — It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which, through the changes of eighteen centuries, has. filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has... | |
 | Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
...Lecky, in his History of Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. With this quotation I will conclude : " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1874 - 312 pages
...Lecky, in his History of Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. With this quotation I will conclude : " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1875 - 314 pages
...Lecky, in his History of Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. With this quotation I will conclude : " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions ; has not... | |
 | David Thomas - 1878 - 456 pages
...from the creation up to now. Even Lecky, the historian of Rationalism, does not hesitate to say, " It was reserved for Christianity to present to the...inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, tem* Preached on the morning of Christmas Day,... | |
 | Charles Shakspeare - 1878 - 196 pages
...been reserved for Christianity," says Mr. Lecky in his " History of European Morals," " to present the world an ideal character which, through all the changes of eighteen centuries, has filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love; has shown itself capable of acting on all ages,... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - 1878 - 534 pages
...understood it, and expressed the same thought in terms of admiration which we are glad to reproduce. "It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character "— that of Christ—"which through all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts... | |
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