I know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tis far too merciful to let her die, or even so much as suffer, for want of aid. Thou knowest who said, ' Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her !' There have been plenty... Hard Times for These Times - Pągina 100per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 376 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Joseph Snow - 1857 - 252 pągines
...scale. Thus threads humility the narrow gate To glory, known by its " eternal weight." a CXCVI1I. '* Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." CAST not a careless stone At him who lies below ; Judge no man's soul, for God alone The secret heart... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pągines
...Jews did, but do we never cast missiles of a figurative kind at our erring brothers and sisters ? " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." The test was efficacious when originally tried, and the woman went home unharmed. If our English habit... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 616 pągines
...far-sighted tolerance in the appreciation of moral actions, as expressed in the eminently Christian sentence, 'Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone.' " * PLINY, Epist., lib. vin, 22. After the text was written, SCHOLL published Goethe's note-book kept... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 604 pągines
...hand, with a low groan. " And next, for that I know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tь far too merciful to let her die, or even so much as...plenty to do that. Thou art not the man to cast the la^; stone, Stephen, when she is brought so low." " О Rachacl, Rachacl !" "Thou hast been a cruel... | |
| Hodder and Stoughton - 1868 - 714 pągines
...woman accused of adultery, and desired that she .should be stoned, His significant reply to them was, " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her." " Wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?" asked... | |
| Waldorf Henry Phillips - 1874 - 198 pągines
...passed away forever. She could repent the folly of those days now, but she could not call them back. " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone." We can never tell how we would act, until placed in a position for acting. It is folly to say we would... | |
| Michel Ulysse Maynard - 1877 - 436 pągines
...the place of judge at that time, and wishing to deliver her from her enemies, He said to the Jews: 'Let him who is without sin, among you, cast the first stone at her.'' (John viii, 7). Herein he practiced in an eminent degree these two virtues : simplicity, in the merciful... | |
| Universal communion - 1877 - 176 pągines
...brother, and try their right to reject him by the repetition of another test He once before applied : " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone," how inevitably must every one of them, without exception, retire as did they of old. There is no graduated... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1881 - 570 pągines
...imputations, and in somewhat harsh and coarse touches sportively express that most Christian maxim : Let him who is without sin among you, cast the first stone. Through this earnestness, which cast a gloom over my first * "Exposition," in a dramatic sense, properly... | |
| Church congress - 1881 - 692 pągines
...husband ; and if he chose, no one would be able to interfere with his generosity to his wife. Of course " Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone " requires that the wife should have power to administer an oath to her husband that he had never committed... | |
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