 | John Henry Newman - 1843 - 372 páginas
...them. Again, what impediments do the diversities of language place in the way of communicating ' Hence it is not more than an hyperbole to say that, in certain...his patients, so for the welfare of the sick he will be false, or will tell a falsehood, as the Sophists speak. For instance, the noble Apostle circumcised... | |
 | 1843 - 996 páginas
...dungeon ! In like manner the Jesuit principle is quietly insinuated, in a note, thus : — " Hence it ig not more than an hyperbole to say, that, in certain...the meaning, for instance, of St. Clement, when he gays, ' He (the Christian) both thinks and speaks the truth, unless when at any time, in the way of... | |
 | 1845 - 724 páginas
...was a canonized saint, and that it would be " an awful pride" to speak irreverently of such an one ? Of course, if he disapproved of such doctrine, he...an hyperbole to say that, in certain cases a lie is tlie nearest approach to truth. This seems the meaning for instance of St. Clement, when he cays '... | |
 | James Thomas O'Brien (bp. of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1846 - 414 páginas
...Arians in the Fourth Century, p. 81. And in his University Sermons it is thus repeated : — " Hence it is not more than an hyperbole to say, that in certain...cases, a lie is the nearest approach to truth. This and when I last addressed you in the same way, some of the fruits which the principle has produced... | |
 | 1846 - 782 páginas
...the fathers and mothers whose children they hold as sacred deposits, to repudiate the fearful heresy that, in certain cases, a lie is the nearest approach to truth* Let the Jesuitical and non-natural sense of signing the Articles be designated by its proper name ;... | |
 | 1864 - 798 páginas
...passion, and careful only to impress upon his canvas the precise distortion that has charmed his fancy. " It is not more than an hyperbole to say that, in certain cases, a lie is the nearest approach to truth ;" and it is no hyperbole at all to say that there is a certain kind of truth which has some of the... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1864 - 598 páginas
...aphorism which I intended them to convey. I said that it is not more than an hyperbolical expression to say that in certain cases a lie is the nearest approach to truth. Mr. Kingsley's pamphlet is emphatically one of such cases as are contemplated in that proposition.... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1865 - 406 páginas
...aphorism which I intended them to coney. I said that it is not more than an hyperbolical expresion to say that in certain cases a lie is the nearest approach o truth. Mr. Kingsley's pamphlet is emphatically one of uch cases as are contemplated in that proposition.... | |
 | 1866 - 992 páginas
...forth by Dr. Newman on the same subject. He observes in his "Apologia": — " It is not more than a hyperbole to say, that in certain cases a lie is the nearest approach to truth." Or with that of Ignatius Loyola, who instructs his followers, — " That we may in all things attain... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1880 - 412 páginas
...to an arbitrary selection of a certain number of these innumerable materials, it were idle 4 Hence it is not more than an hyperbole to say that, in certain cases, a lie is the nearest approach to the truth. [Vide Hist, of Avians, p. 67, &c. Edit. 3.] We are told that " God is not the son of man,... | |
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"it is not more than an hyperbole to say that, in certain cases a lie is the nearest approach to truth,. This seems the meaning for instance of St. Clement, when he says 'He [the Christian] both thinks and speaks the truth, unless when at any time, in... 
