 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1888 - 540 pages
...unwillingly. What ! independently of religious opinions, were there not in Scaliger the most transcendent attainments of human erudition, from which those who...aid of faction and the intrigues of human subtlety. Hence God's indignation is abroad. 1 See Church Quarterly for April and October 1886. 2 De Thou wrote... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 518 pages
...religious opinions, were there not in Scaliger the most transcendant attainments of human erudition ? And did not the singular endowments bestowed upon him by Heaven claim the veneration of all worthy men ? This apology for a friendship with a Huguenot is a humiliating confession of the... | |
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... that I never heard this great man dispute on the controverted points of faith; and I am well assured that he never did discuss them but upon provocation, and then reluctantly. Independently of his religious opinions, were there not in Scaliger the... 