Again, we have to draw a distinction between the Christian idea and the outward Christian organisation, and between the consequences to human nature and society which flowed from the first, and the advantages which may be traced to the second.
This statement distinguishes between the essence of Christian teachings and the institutional practices that arose from them.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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