 | Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 494 pages
...the light of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. Christian- While,however,Christianity necessarily... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 538 pages
...the light of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. Christian- While,however,Christianity necessarily... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 498 pages
...the light of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. Christian- While,howevcr,Christianity necessarily... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 432 pages
...sumay be adduced as an instance of the state to perintended by strangers iu a very differnrt "lion!" sign of its divine original : it will advance with...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. While, however, Christianity necessarily submitted... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1842 - 672 pages
...the light of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man." — p. 37. If this means that an ignorant and corrupt... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1863 - 530 pages
...light, of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. While, however, Christianity necessarily submitted... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1866 - 500 pages
...by strangers in a very different stage of civilization. CHAP. I. CHRISTIANITY NOT SELF-DEVELOPED. 57 any sign of its Divine original ; it will advance...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. While, however, Christianity necessarily submitted... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1866 - 496 pages
...strangers in a very different stage of civilization. I CHAP I. CHRISTIANITY NOT SELF-DEVELOPED. 57 any sign of its Divine original ; it will advance...advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man. While, however, Christianity necessarily submitted... | |
 | 1867 - 902 pages
...light of each succeeding century ; in an nngenial time, it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature, as scarcely to retain any sign of...advance with the advancement of human nature, and keep np the moral to the ntmost height of the intellectual culture of man." — (History of Christianity,... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...the light of each succeeding century. In an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature, as scarcely to retain any sign of its divine original." These passages are the more important, as Milman appears to have prepared his historical works with... | |
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It must be considered, therefore, in constant connexion with that character ; it will darken with the darkness, and brighten with the light, of each succeeding century ; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as... 
