 | 1828 - 640 páginas
...were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no weight, if it appeared to clash with a text of scripture,...the wisest of the ancients, as to be pronounced by Pbny, the great contest between the learned and the ignorant, became a stumbling block with some of... | |
 | 1828 - 438 páginas
...faith. Doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with...scripture, or a commentary of one of the fathers."— Vol. i. pp. 121, 122. And he goes on in the same strain for a couple of pages more. Now mark how different... | |
 | 1828 - 448 páginas
...faith. Doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with...a text of scripture, or a commentary of one of the fathers."—Vol. i. pp. 121, 122. And he goes on in the same strain for a couple of pages more. Now... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 páginas
...doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical 'discussions, and even a mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with...commentary of one of the fathers. Thus the possibility of the existence of antipodes in the southern hemisphere, though maintained by the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 páginas
...doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and even a mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with...commentary of one of the fathers. Thus the possibility of the existence of antipodes in the southern hemisphere, though maintained by the wisest of the ancients,... | |
 | 1833 - 480 páginas
...faith. Doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with...of the fathers. Thus the possibility of antipodes, an opinion pronounced even as early as Pliny, to be the great contest between the learned and the ignorant,... | |
 | 596 páginas
...doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and even mathematical demonstration was allowed no truth, if it appeared to clash with a text of Scripture, in a commentary of the Fathers. Thus the possibility of the existence of antipodes in the southern... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 páginas
...expositions of various saints and revered commentators. A mathematical demonstration was allowed no weight, if it appeared to clash with a text of Scripture or a commentary of one of the Fathers ; and a passage from Lactantius " Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes,... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1891 - 412 páginas
...were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and mathematical demonstration was allowed no weight if it appeared to clash with a text of Scripture or a commentary of one of the fathers. After a moment's silence, Columbus replied : " Holy fathers, I reverence the doctrines and Scriptures... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1891 - 266 páginas
...were mixed up with philosophical discussions ; and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no weight if it appeared to clash with a text of Scripture or a commentary of one of the fathers."* Augustine had pronounced the doctrine of antipodes heretical ; because if there were inhabitants on... | |
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Doctrinal points were mixed up with philosophical discussions, and a mathematical demonstration was allowed no weight, if it appeared to clash with a text of scripture, or a commentary of one of the fathers. 
