 ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost,...  The Christian Examiner - Page 1541869Full view - About this book
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...his nation, the loss of her most precious provinces, the 1 ' The Church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, so far as temporal affliction goes, than that... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Anglo-Catholicism - 1850 - 352 pages
...her own way, do good to souls, it is no use her doing any thing; she holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1864 - 598 pages
...to withdraw, and in consequence I here deliberately repeat it. I said, "The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...the subject of personal truthfulness, which. you attribute to the Church of your adoption: — "It is better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...die of starvation in extremest agony, than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...subject of personal truthfulness, which you attribute to the Church of your adoption : — " It is better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...die of starvation in extremest agony, than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Theology - 1865 - 448 pages
...withdraw, and in consequence I here deliberately repeat it. I said, " The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should... | |
 | William Brightly Rands - 1866 - 380 pages
...the subject of personal truthfulness, which you attribute to the Church of your adoption: —" It is better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for...the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on ifc to die of starvation in extremest agony, than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but... | |
 | 1869 - 880 pages
...lower, and appears shocked at Dr. Newman's assertion that "the church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions of its inhabitants to die of starvation in extreme agony, te fat as temporal affliction goes, than... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 pages
...his nation, the loss of her most precious provinces, the 1 ' The Church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest ngony, so far as temporal affliction goes, than that... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 532 pages
...nation, the loss of her most precious provinces, the 1 ' The Church holds that it were hetter for sun mid moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extreinest ngony, so far as temporal affliction goes, than... | |
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