Michael Wigglesworth Quote

By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and be accepted as a novelty.


oration, 1650; Perry Miller The American Puritans (1956)


By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and ...

By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and ...

By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and ...

By the power of eloquence old truth receives a new habit; though its essence be the same, yet its visage is so altered that it may currently pass and ...