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" When an institution is supported with all the fervour of religious enthusiasm, and is aided by the weight of such powerful additional causes, an attempt to oppose it is like attempting to oppose a torrent of burning lava, that issues from Etna or Vesuvius. "
History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge - Page 855
by Thomas Baker - 1869
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The History of the Origin and First Ten Years of the British and ..., Volume 2

John Owen - Missionaries - 1816 - 660 pages
...which, therefore, this History may not improperly take leave of him. PART " abandoned the thought of opposing the Bible Society. When an Institution is supported with all the fervor of religious enthusiasm, and is 1813-14. aided by the weight of such powerful additional causes,...
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Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine, Volume 5

John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pages
...memories of generations yet unborn ; and that has reared temples and pyramids with you arc like attempts to oppose a torrent of burning lava that issues from, .(Etna or Vesuvius." It is the language of honest confession. But, sir, a Bible Society, and especially H National Institution...
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The Religious Miscellany: Containing Information Relative to the ..., Volume 1

1823 - 442 pages
...he, "the thought of opposing the Bible Societ.. When an institution is supported with all the fervor of religious enthusiasm, and is aided by the weight...torrent of burning lava that issues from ./Etna or Vesuvias." "In the American Bible Society there is laid down the foundation of an immence fabric of...
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Annals of the English Bible, Volume 2

Christopher Anderson - Bible - 1845 - 766 pages
...Marsh, the late Bishop of Peterborough. •• I have long since," said he, " abandoned the thought of opposing the Bible Society. When an institution is...of burning lava that issues from Etna or Vesuvius." Yet but a very short period had elapsed, when three English Bishops, Tomline of Lincoln, Law of Chester,...
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The English Church in the Nineteenth Century (1800-1833)

John Henry Overton - England - 1894 - 396 pages
...Marsh, said in reply to its ablest defender, Dean Milner, " I have long since abandoned the thought of opposing the Bible Society. When an institution is...of burning lava that issues from Etna or Vesuvius." 1 This was in 1813. In the same way Archdeacon Daubeny, in his " Reasons for declining Connection with...
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The Review of the Churches, Volume 1

Christian union - 1892 - 460 pages
...Marsh seems to have felt that he was defeated, for he abandoned the controversy, with the remark that " when an institution is supported with all the fervour of religious enthusiasm, an attempt to oppose it is like attempting to oppose a torrent of burning lava that issues from Etna...
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Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign ...

Leslie Howsam - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 268 pages
...in pamphlet and pulpit against the new Society, but finally had to admit defeat in 1813, saying that 'when an institution is supported with all the fervour of religious enthusiasm ... an attempt to oppose it, is like attempting to oppose a torrent of burning lava that issues from...
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