 | 1851 - 592 strani
...very reverse of his biographer's Will-o'-th'-wisp doctrines, which he at a later period adopted : " What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration...leave uncredited ; at your peril do not try believing other than that." It had been better for Sterling had he not afterwards been brought within the range... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 strani
...I would not attempt to enforce by Bible, Church, or Pope. Carlyle's adj uration is irresistible, ' What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration...uncredited; — at your peril do not try believing that.'" This is a very convenient basis of credence. What a man cannot understand he is not to believe. Perhaps... | |
 | 1851 - 588 strani
...of our genuine critic — " hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches !" — what spirit ? — " the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty !" The light of whose mind ? Not any of the learned professions, but the light of the new Pope, the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1851 - 360 strani
...you could, that said astral spirits, or defunct logical phantasms, could serve you in any thing. | What the light ^ of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the A1-! I mighty, pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave] ( uncredited ; at your peril... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1852 - 620 strani
...dreamer. Still such sentences as the following do not carry immediate conviction : — ' What the liffltt of 'your mind, -which is the direct inspiration of...uncredited; at ' your peril do not try believing that.' Leaving out of the discussion the question what is meant by ' the light of your mind,' the exhortation... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 strani
...terrible a fact without attempting any proof. " What the light of your mind," he tells us in one page, " which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces...uncredited; at your peril do not try believing that." And, lest the light of our own minds should fail of sufficient illumination, he further on informs... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 strani
...if you could, that said astral spirits, or defunct logical phantasms, could serve- you in any thing. What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration...pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave uncrcdited ; at your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of ' reason ' versus... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 268 strani
...terrible a fact without attempting any proof. " What the light of your mind," he tells us in one page, " which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave tmcredited ; at your peril do not try believing that." And, lest the light of our own minds should... | |
 | Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 630 strani
...beard was not grown as now."1 And, with a sneer at the old churches and the old creeds, he says : " What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration...leave uncredited ; at your peril do not try believing that."2 Where such talk as this is indulged in, the law and the testimony is very little valued. Mr.... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 360 strani
...spurions trash, and conveying them down to posterity in one volume." _ CHAPTER XXIII. CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES. What, the lig:ht of your mind, which is the direct...Almighty, pronounces incredible — that in God's name lenve uncredited ; at your peril do not try believing that." CARLYLB. § 134. The Bible teaches certain... | |
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reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat; — and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces! 
