...them. Wh;it will not such a capacity and such a pen do, either to shame or to improve a miserable age ! The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filied it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality,...

...them. What will not such a capacity and such a pen do, either to shame or to improve a miserable age! The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without. I have read over Chap. III. again and again, and find still new beauties in it. What you say of the...

...them. What will not such a capacity and such a pen do, either to shame or to improve a miserable age 1 The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.' p. 83, 84. In another place, he says, ' I am serious upon it. I am afraid that both you and I shall...

...of an 18th-century Bishop of Gloucester — with whom his successor has not a little in common : ' The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...clamour in it ; but for the little corner of rationality which was as mucli distressed by the stench within as by the tempest without.' Art. 2.— JOSEPH CONEAD....

...broke, who was fond of the impiety, and yet did not see the blunder. Of Noah's Ark, Warburton say« ; The church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, butfor'lhe little corner of rationality, that was as mtioh distressed by the stink within, as by the...

...his brother Bishop Kurd. " The Church,'' says the learned prelate, " like the Ark of Noah, is wgrth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and...probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for th* little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest...

...have pronounced adulterous. Herein he will agree with Bishop Warburton, who says in his letters, " The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without." To a rotten ship, say the Italians, every wind is contrary. No wonder, therefore, that the Church finds...

...have pronounced adulterous. Herein he will agree with Bishop Warburton, who says in his letters, " The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving...sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost Jilled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it; but for, the little corner of rationality,...

...have pronounced adulterous. Herein he will agree with Bishop Warburton, who says in his letters, " The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and * Moral and Political Philosophy, vol. ii. p. 305. vermin that almost filled it, and probably made...

...WARDURTON. I have no doubt of the likeness then— the reader will judge of the likeness now :— " The Church, like the ark of Noah, is worth saving...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without. " Our Grandees have at last found their way back into the church. I only wonder they have been so long...