...spring. ' The Church,' wrote Warburton during the now forgotten controversies of the eighteenth century, 'like the ark of • Noah, is worth saving, not for...rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within ' it as by the tempest without.' NOTE. — It may be of interest to our readers to have before them...

...humanity, like the Ark, was still worth saving, not (as Warburton wrote) for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise...distressed by the stink within as by the tempest without. A French Horace in some respects, living in an age of Terror, in which the principles of Nationality...

...' The Church,' wrote Warburton during the now forgotten controversies of the eighteenth century, ' like the ark of Noah, is worth saving not for the...rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within it as by the tempest without.' NOTE. — It may be of interest to our readers to have before them the...

...discoverable. "The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without." Is it not good? It is out of his letters: and the best thing in them. It is also the best thing in...

...the Ark : The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it and probably made most noise...distressed by the stink within as by the tempest without. It is significant of the modesty of the Unitarian that he does not emerge from this retirement even...

...a Church as Warburton, to the great joy of Edward FitzGerald, likened to Noah's family in the Ark : The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of...

...but for the bad theology which he thought to be at the base of his work. " The Church," said he, " like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving, not for the...distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without." 1 In 1762 Warburton attacked Wesley in " The Doctrine of Grace, or the Office and Operations of the...

...'The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving,' spat Bishop Warburton to his friend Richard Hurd, 'not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, but for the little corner of rationality that was as much disturbed by the stink within as by the tempest...

...sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamor in it, but for the little corner of rationality that was as much disturbed by the stink within as by the tempest without." (Letters, p. 84.) Rather a bad smell in a...