 Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the Saints wherewith to withstand the brute male...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 346edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 650 pages
...misetatemunte — Dr. Newman gives them a plainer name — ae words in his now famous sentence, '• Truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the sainte wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 pages
...inventive powers might have been left unnoticed, but for a passing blow that it contained at Dr. Newman. " Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be : that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | 1864 - 684 pages
...History, in " Macmillan's Magazine" the following paragraph : — " So, again, of the virtue of truth. Truth for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | 1864 - 626 pages
...even his usual recklessness, said, in the course of a vehement attack upon the Catholic Church : " Truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be," and so forth. In a former number we have given a brief account of the correspondence which arose out... | |
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...by the everlasting laws of a God who was no respecter of persons. So, again, of the virtue of truth. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1864 - 580 pages
...the everlasting laws of a l ¡öd who was no respecter of persons. So, again, of the virtue of truth. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...But Mr Kingsley is not content to stop here. " So again," he observes, "with the virtue of truth : truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with...informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not ; that cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1864 - 638 pages
...in the course of a vehement attack upon the Catholic Church : " Truth for its own sake had nevetbeen a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be," and so forth. In a former number wo have given a brief account of the correspondence which arose out... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1865 - 448 pages
...neglect of it which he at the same time imputed to the Catholic Priesthood. His words were these : — " Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the Saints wherewith to withstand the brute male... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1865 - 406 pages
...mark calling my attention to page 217. There, apropos of Queen Elizabeth, I read as follows : — " Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with...that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute... | |
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