On the sensitive feelings of the young controversialist and poet, this sentence of exclusion from his boyhood's home inflicted a bitter pang; yet he was determined to bear it, for the sake of what he believed to be right and true.
He was an acute and able controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, on which he wrote several treatises.
He was a voluminous writer, and a keen and acrimonious controversialistagainst the Puritans.
Step by step it was recognized that not misinterpretation of events but mythology underlay much of the sacred history.
Still the general movement was inevitably and irrevocably rationalistic.
Nowhere is this division so marked, and it begins to bear fruits.
In fact the whole statement of the controversialist just quoted must be treated as a legend.
His references to Rousseau are frequent, as might be expected, and it was not difficult for so expert a controversialist to give a good account of the author of Emile.
The Roman controversialist objects to the Church of England that it does not exhibit notes of sanctity, "that it has no saints.
It is one of the duties of the controversialist to drop each subject of debate so soon as everything materially affecting it has been advanced; and to seize the time for silence, as promptly as the time for speech.
Lübeck, distinguished himself as an able controversialist against the papacy by his “Demonstratio Ministerii Lutherani Divini atque Legitimi.
The pagan controversialist Celsus is the first to mention this treatise.
The controversialist Celsus, and also Origen, Jerome, and the Latin translator, do not name the writer.
The fisherman-controversialist made a great stir, and from that day became known and honoured in the Low Countries.
He returned to Metz, in the cathedral of which he held a canonry, and where his abilities as a preacher and a controversialist soon attracted attention.
As an orator Bossuet was far ahead of the preachers of his time, and as a writer and controversialist he had few equals.
As a Persian scholar and controversialist Henry Martyn found a worthy successor in the German, and afterwards Church Missionary Society's missionary, C.
Had this acute and learned controversialist been prepared to encounter infant baptism on such grounds, he would not have neglected his opportunity.
William King, student of Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards Judge of the Irish Court of Admiralty, presented an example of the skilled controversialist spoken of by Hill Burton as letting fly "a few Parthian arrows from the Index.
He was alike eminent both as a scholar in the learning of the times and as a controversialist of no mean repute.
Among its great scholars was Vincent of Lerins, the first controversialist of his time, and the originator of the celebrated formula: Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditum est.
The legend of Pope Joan has been so thoroughly exposed that no controversialist of discrimination thinks of reviving it as an argument against the succession of the Bishops of Rome.
It is surely possible to feel more than the controversialist here.
I'm somewhat famous, too, I grieve to tell, As controversialistand infidel.
But where the philosopher lays the controversialist on one side for a brief period, and takes the trouble to elucidate his own ideas we discover what has been lost by these defects of temperament.
Even the honest controversialistor teacher will find it very difficult to represent, without misrepresenting, what it is yet his duty to present to his hearers with caution or reserve.
However, I was to have other measure dealt to me; great authorities ruled it so; and a learned controversialist in the North thought it a shame that I did not leave the Church of England as much as ten years sooner than I did.
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