perfecters

Now in the genus of perfection according to Dionysius (Eccl.Hier. v, vi), bishops are in the position of "perfecters," whereas religious are in the position of being "perfected"; the former of which pertains to action, and the latter to passion.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Religion and tradition are the only real bulwark against the self-appointed improvers and perfecters of our humanity.

LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

Religion and tradition are the only real bulwark against the self-appointed improvers and perfecters of our humanity.

LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

There is a connection between the rise of that notion -- schools as society's perfecters -- and the decline of schools as producers of graduates who think precisely, write clearly, read complex material and bring historical understanding to today's conditions.

Curdled Politics On Campus 2008

It is a hymn to particularities and the ordinary, and an exhortation to confound the "progressives" and perfecters who would dash around "with an axe, hacking branches off the trees whenever there were not the same number on both sides."

Beach Reading Without Guilt 2007

_On the contrary, _ Dionysius (Eccl.Hier. v) ascribes perfection to bishops as being perfecters, and (Eccl.Hier. vi) to religious (whom he calls monks or _therapeutai_, i.e. servants of God) as being perfected.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Reply Obj. 3: The subjection of religious is chiefly in reference to bishops, who are compared to them as perfecters to perfected, as

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

If the wiseacre meant that Purcell did not leave, as Haydn and Mozart undoubtedly did, a form in which dullards may compose until the world is sick, then the wiseacre is right But the inventors and perfecters of forms have not always wrought an unmitigated good.

Purcell Runciman, John F 1909

Now, I have observed that the men who do this kind of work are always the second-rate men: first come the inventors, the pioneers, and then the perfecters; it is always at the close of a school that the tip-top men arise.

Haydn Runciman, John F 1908

Now, I have observed that the men who do this kind of work are always the second-rate men: first come the inventors, the pioneers, and then the perfecters; it is always at the close of a school that the tip-top men arise.

Haydn John F. Runciman 1891