 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...having been in possession of it I know not how many years. We are all of us enrolled in some religious organization or other; we all call ourselves, in... | |
 | 1867
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...having been in possession of it I know not how many years. We are all of us enrolled in some religious organization or other ; we all call ourselves, in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 832 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...having been in possession of it I know not how many years. We are all of us enrolled in some religious organization or other ; we all call ourselves, in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 802 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...be found in the state of our life and society with those in possession of it, and having been in possession of it I know not how many years. Wo are all... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1870 - 174 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...having been in possession of it I know not how many years. We are all of us included in some religious organization or other ; we all call ourselves, in... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1871 - 210 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...having been in possession of it I know not how many years. We are all of us included in some religious organization or other ; we all call ourselves, in... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Culture - 1878 - 192 pages
...of the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations—expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which the human race has yet made after perfection—is to be found in the state of our life and society with these in possession of it, and... | |
 | Criticism - 1881 - 868 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations — expressing, as I have said, the most widespread effort which the...our life and society with these in possession of it, I know not how many years." And then he actually instances the city of London, with its monstrous extremes... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations, — expressing, as I have said, the most wide-spread effort which...years. We are all of us included in some religious organization or other ; we all call ourselves, in the sublime and aspiring language of religion which... | |
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Indeed, the strongest plea for the study of perfection as pursued by culture, the clearest proof of the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations — expressing, as I have said, the most widespread effort which the... 
