 It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things.  The Common School Teacher - Page 1061876Full view - About this book
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 486 pages
...philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes 5 . Thus Eusebius says 6 , " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1837 - 590 pages
...philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes J. "Thus," Eusebius says, " it is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 pages
...that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes5. Thus Euse5 Brucker iii. 317bius says3, " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 566 pages
...valuable philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes.7 Thus Eusebius says,8 "It is not through ignorance of the things admired...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things." When the thoughts were thus intentionally averted from those ideas... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...valuable philosophy is that which teaches us our moral duties and religious hopes.7 Thus Eusebius says," " It is not through ignorance of the things admired...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things." When the thoughts were thus intentionally averted from those ideas... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 580 pages
...duties and religious hopes.7 Thus Eusebius says,8 " It is not through ignorance of the things ad-v mired by them, but through contempt of their useless labor,...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things." When the thoughts were thus intentionally averted from those ideas... | |
 | 1893 - 696 pages
...of knowledge." For example, Eusebius thus speaks of " natural " philosophy and its disciples : — " It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things."... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...capable of supernaturally rising at a leap to far higher and better knowledge. So Eusebius says, ' It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labours, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things.'... | |
 | Joel Moody - 1871 - 358 pages
...the church: "It is not through ignorance of these things admired by them, (the natural philosophers,) but through contempt of their useless labor that we...think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things/' And Lactantius, of the same century, the Third, pronounces the investigation... | |
 | 1875 - 884 pages
...understand that he and the fathers of the Church despised all such inquiries. Speaking of the innovations in physical science, he said : " It is not through...these matters, turning our souls to better things." ' Lactantius asserted the ideas of those studying astronomy to be " mad and senseless." ' But the attempt... | |
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