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Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise (Volume 2 de 5)

Note 465 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.

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: Yet these are the men cryed out against for schismatick and sectaries, as if while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and the timber, ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united in a continuity, it can be but contiguous in this world; nay, rather, the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportionnal, arises the goodly and graceful symmetry that commends the whole pile and structure.

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