 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1892 - 608 pages
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mentiou of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1892 - 590 pages
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mentiou of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - Governors - 1893 - 478 pages
...shallow nothingness of his nature. ' Dangerous it were,' says the eloquent and judicious Hooker, ' for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings...can know Him, and our safest eloquence concerning Hun is our silence, when we confess without confession, that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1893 - 372 pages
...Jjv TOV relxovs ка.1 ai в-úptu. (rvxov àvcipyiiévat avroû. Cf. Hooker in the Eccles. Pol. ' Whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name.' Also 'Whose fan is in His hand and He will throughly purge His floor. ' Livy, 23, 8 Cum quo . . . steterat,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1894 - 58 pages
...can hardly be asked. Perhaps Hooker's famous sentence best explains his position: " It is dangerous for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings...life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our minutest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that... | |
 | Richard Horton Smith - Greek language - 1894 - 732 pages
...iv English unsynimetrical sentences to draw the parallel between them " ; Hooker Eccl. Pol. bk. i. " dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High " ; Thackeray Sketches and Travels in London : Mr. Brown's Letters ii. " as for particularising your... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Christianity - 1896 - 178 pages
...himself, must seek a faith apart from such Christianity. A divine, who excelled in good sense, said : "Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High. Our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is... | |
 | Alfred Slater West - English language - 1898 - 336 pages
...passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. 60. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him. INDEX. A, sounds of, 45; feminine suffix, 82 ; and an, 107; form of on, in; as prefix, 203 Antecedent... | |
 | Alexander Gardiner Mercer - 1899 - 222 pages
...our own lives ; indeed far from it, and yet we dream of knowing God. How just is Hooker — " Vain it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High." We err constantly in thinking human beings too much alike or too much unlike — thinking them unlike... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know... 
