 | John Dowling - 1845 - 698 sidor
...words, which are utterly un worthy of a person writing by inspiration. " Here will I make an end. And IP I HAVE DONE WELL, AND AS is FITTING THE STORY, IT...AND MEANLY, IT IS THAT WHICH I COULD ATTAIN UNTO. For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone ; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1845 - 698 sidor
...fulfilled3The author himself, of one of the Apocryphal books, makes an apology for his work, saying, " If I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...desired ; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which / could attain unto<." No holy man of God, speaking as he was moved by the Holy Ghost, would ever have... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1845 - 354 sidor
...world, had been received into an eternal habitation. CHAPTER XVI. And if I have done well, and as ia fitting the story, it is that which I desired; but...and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto. 2 Maccab. xv. 3a IT had cost Dr. Lenton much to administer any consolation to the bereaved father.... | |
 | James Godkin - 1845 - 164 sidor
...errors into which he may have fallen ; and the writer of Second Maccabees concludes as follows : — "If I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired; hut if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto." What words for a man speaking as... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1846 - 456 sidor
...decent decoration of His house; and while we admire the modesty which concludes the preface with — " If I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto;" we must give our fair authoress the full credit of having carried out the principle contained in another... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1846 - 460 sidor
...decent decoration of His house; and while we admire the modesty which concludes the preface with — " If I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto;" we must give our fair authoress the full credit of having carried out the principle contained in another... | |
 | William Stephens Potts - 1846 - 144 sidor
...author of Maccabees speaks of his work as the "painful labor of abridging;" and in the conclusion says, "If I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto." They contain, also, internal evidence of their lack of inspiration ; "to say nothing of their silly... | |
 | Percy Society - 1847 - 358 sidor
...Society, I may, perhaps, be permitted to conclude in the words of another and more ancient writer: "And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...and MEANLY, it is that which I could attain unto." M. AISLABIE DENHAM. Purse Bridge, near Darlington, August, 1846. GENERAL ADAGES, PROVERBS, ETC. A FOG... | |
 | 1847 - 918 sidor
...blasphemy if they were applied to the Holy Ghost, by whose inspiration holy men wrote the Scriptures: "If I have done well, and as is fitting the story,...I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that I could attain unto' 0 ." Notwithstanding this disclaimer, the Trent Council declares that " if any... | |
 | Ernst Alban - 1848 - 398 sidor
...And so can I say, with the modest author of the Book of Maccabees, — ' And if I have done well, and fitting the story, it is that which I desired ; but...and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto. ' For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone ; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant and... | |
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And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto. 
