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1820–1894 United States
William Greenough Thayer Shedd (June 21, 1820 – November 17, 1894), son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer, was an American Presbyterian theologian.
United States Presbyterians Religious leaders Theologians Also known as: Prof. Shedd, Professor Shedd, W. G. T. Shedd, W.G.T. Shedd
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There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The law is obligated to punish the transgressor as much as the transgressor is obligated to obey the law — law has no option. Justice has but one function. The necessity of penalty is as great as the necessity of obligation. The law itself is under law; that is, it is under the necessity of its own nature; and therefore the only possible way whereby a transgressor can escape the penalty of the law, is for a substitute to endure it for him. The deep substrata and base of all God's ethical attributes are eternal law and impartial justice.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
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