 | Thomas Gordon - 1743 - 392 pages
...confequently be improper Chanels to convey any to their Pupils. FROM thence they are fent to theUniverfities, (very commonly upon Charity) where they are ham-ftringed...are. . Their Bufmefs afterwards is not to find out $vhat is Truth, but to defend the received l Syftem, Syftem, and to maintain thofe Do&rines which are... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...oaths and subscriptions, mid obliged to swear to uotions before they know what they are. Their business afterwards is not to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and to maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them. Kot only their present revenues... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 pages
...oaths and subscriptions, and obliged to swear to notions before they know what they are. Their business afterwards is not to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and to maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them. Not only their present revenues... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 602 pages
...oaths and subscriptions, and obliged to swear to notions before they know what they are. Their bnsiness afterwards is not to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and tn maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them. Not only their present revenues... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 610 pages
...oaths and subscriptions, and obliged to swear to notions before they know what they are. Their business afterwards is not to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and to maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them. Not only their present revenues... | |
 | William Livingston - 1963 - 484 pages
...at a Free Thought .... From thence they are sent to the Universities . . . and . . . Their Business afterwards is not to find out what is Truth, but to defend the received System, and to maintain those Doctrines which are to maintain them. (No. V) . . . the Christian Religion,... | |
 | Lawrence Stone, A. L. Beier - History - 1989 - 692 pages
...Gordon and John Trenchard) spoke of would-be clergy being sent to the universities where they learned not 'to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and to maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them' (p. 30). Even a more politically... | |
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Their business afterwards is not to find out what is truth, but to defend the received system, and to maintain those doctrines which are to maintain them. Not only their present revenues and subsistence, but all their expectations, are annexed to certain... 