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" Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers... "
Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay - Page 63
edited by - 1885 - 367 pages
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...to beatific vision that man by this very opinion declares, that he is yet far short of Truth, Truth come there. We had a pretty project to do it in the...Antigaliicant exceedingly, more than the Gallicans Osiris,4 took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into c thousand pieces, and scattered them to...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...darkness, and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon. — Of Reformation in England, Truth. Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her Divine Master,...Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the god Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 9

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...with, the present writer does not know. Both, at least, contain a moral worth considering. " Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her Divine Master,...then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four...
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King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I. and the Great Rebellion

Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 pages
...would stop the search for truth and expel as much of virtue as of sin. " Truth, indeed," he wrote, " came once into the world with her Divine Master, and...ascended, and His apostles after Him were laid asleep, there straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, with...
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Paradise regained, a poem, ed. with intr. and notes by C.S. Jerram

John Milton - 1877 - 262 pages
...notion is that of an outline or model presented to the eye. In the Areopagitica Milton says, — ' Truth came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on.' L. 14. '(Trim and T Inmiiiiiiu, dcc. Milton seems to adopt the opinion of those who (as Josephus) identified...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 4

John Milton - 1891 - 530 pages
...lovely shapes of virtues and graces.' Ibid. 446. ' Trutli indeed came once into the world with lier divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on.' Speech for Liberty of Printing. Ibid. 89. 8 ' We cannot deny but that besides Origen, several others...
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Ingersoll, Beecher, and Dogma ...

Richmond Sheffield Dement - 1878 - 172 pages
...life can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. ALEXANDER SMITH. Truth came once into the world with her Divine Master, and...straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as the story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took...
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Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery." Here is a specimen : — " Truth, indeed, came over into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect...Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the god Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...rather than a life. II.- TRUTH. Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Mas- 30 ter, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on :...wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes 23. spill, destroy. 27. the execntion, the accomplishment. 28. elemental life, a life, or being, consisting...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...scorning the fiery rage of the old red dw.gon. — Of Reformation in England* Truth. Trntli. iud-od. came once into the world with her Divine Master, and...on ; but when he ascended, and his apostles after scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst...
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