Johnson called them the metaphysical poets), produced in Herbert and Vaughan, our two noblest writers of religious verse, the flower of a mode of writing which ended in the somewhat exotic religiousness of Crashaw.
Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy and gladness.
The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge.
In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sinners wisdom is an abomination.
Rather, they can be dispelled only in that the actualizing of the rational a priori is recognized in the mystical occurrences, and thus the intricacies and one-sidedness of the mere psychological stream of religiousness be avoided.
He was a sixth-century counterpart of Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne’s Captain Owen Kettle, a curious combination of narrow religiousnessand foulmouthedness.
In this world he moreover lived as he wished to die, leaving behind him a pattern of religiousness which his children, and their children after them, followed.
Selwyn had hoped that this ingrainedreligiousness would have acted for good on the colonist.
All pursuit of good objects with pure intent is religiousness in the best sense in which this term appears to be used.
If they threw off their "egoism," the mutual wrong would cease, and with it Christian and Jewish religiousness in general; it would be necessary only that neither of them should any longer want to be anything peculiar.
Propertylessness or ragamuffinism, this then is the "essence of Christianity," as it is the essence of all religiousness (i.
It is very significant that such a philosopher, himself much given to denying the religiousness of other men's theories, was nevertheless accused among both the educated and the populace of being essentially non-religious.
On that footing he had it in him to boast like any pedigreed patrician of the historic religiousness of Rome, he himself the while being devoid of all confident religious belief.
As to the non-religiousness of the Homeric epics, there is a division of critical opinion.
She is held to have been substantially skeptical until her forty-fifth year; [1819] though her final religiousness seems also beyond doubt.
This is the first record we have of man's attempt to remedy, by his own device, his condition; and the attentive consideration thereof will afford us not a little instruction as to the real character of human religiousness in all ages.
It will cause man to hide himself from God; and, moreover, all that his own religiousness offers him is a hiding-place from God.
It lies not, we believe, within the compass of human language to set forth the appalling consequences of this mingling of the people of God with the people of the world in one common system of religiousness and theological belief.
Still, thereligiousness of the Phoenicians does not rest on any à priori arguments, or considerations of what is likely to have been.
There is a certain religiousness in his mind, and he sincerely bows himself under the judgment of a God against Whom he had tried issues in vain.
Some of them are the awful responsibility of man's position as the keystone of creation, the material effects of sin, and especially the religiousness of our relation to the lower animals.
It was in the temple that, when Isaiah beheld the scrupulous religiousness of the people, the contrast of that with their evil lives struck him, and he summed it up in the epigram wickedness and worship (i.
Christianity, in Luther's teaching, came to be set forth as something vastly different from the external and mechanical religiousness which had been accepted as Christianity by Rome.
He knew that with all his conventional religiousness he could not pass muster before God.
Thus, feeling is pronounced to be religious, simply because it is feeling; the ground of its religiousness is its own nature--lies in itself.
So long as Christian philanthropy occupied my thoughts and feelings, it helped religiousness; but when it gave way to polities, my religiousness declined, languished, and died.
There seemed more hearty religiousness in the Old Connexion than in the New.
Their religiousness does not differ in kind from that of the totem under which they are classified; it must therefore be derived from the same source.
