John Henry Newman
Cardinal and theologian, 1801-1890
Cited as J. H. Newman. — 47 quotations
Age
The way which the age follows.
Analogous
Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death.
Anyhow
Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error.
Arresting
This most solemn and arresting occurrence.
Assimilate
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England.
Bamboozle
What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you?
Canvas
History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar.
Cogency
An antecedent argument of extreme cogency.
Confessorship
Our duty to contend even to confessorship.
Derivable
The argument derivable from the doxologies.
Detachment
A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint.
Disgust
Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing.
Emigrate
They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
Every
If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up each for himself with every one else his foe.
Evil
It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.
Feudatory
[He] had for feudatories great princes.
Hack
The word “remarkable” has been so hacked of late.
Halves
I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not.
Hammer
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the “massive iron hammers” of the whole earth.
Helpmeet
The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman.
Heyday
In the heyday of their victories.
Idiom
By idiom is meant the use of words which is peculiar to a particular language.
Instrumentality
The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality.
Koumiss
Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits.
Note
She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous.
Notion
A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
Pauline
My religion had always been Pauline.
Popular
The men commonly held in popular estimation are greatest at a distance.
Postil
Postiling and allegorizing on Scripture.
Precaution
They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution.
Probability
We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail.
Prove
They have inferred much from slender premises, and conjectured when they could not prove.
Rationalize
Theodore . . . is justly considered the chief rationalizing doctor of antiquity.
Remove
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
Run
[Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run.
Slender
They have inferred much from slender premises.
Subject-matter
As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes from it.
Superficial
That superficial judgment, which happens to be right without deserving to be so.
Temper
The consequents of a certain ethical temper.
Tutorize
I . . . shall tutorize him some day.
Unlock
[Lord] unlock the spell of sin.
Valiant
[The saints] have made such valiant confessions.
What
I know well . . . how little you will be disposed to criticise what comes to you from me.
Whatever
Whatever be its intrinsic value.
When
Book lore ne'er served, when trial came, Nor gifts, when faith was dead.
While
And so on us at whiles it falls, to claim Powers that we dread.
Yourself
The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.