The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold: D. D., Late Head-master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, Volume 2

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Appleton, 1845 - 516 pages

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Page 102 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 134 - So they ran both together ; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in saw the linen clothes lying ; yet went he not in.
Page 446 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Page 460 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin ; but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 112 - ... to receive a new fellow from his father — when I think what an influence there is in this place for evil as well as for good. I do not know anything which affects me more.
Page 87 - Years afterwards he used to tell the story to his children, and said, I never felt so much ashamed in my life — that look and that speech I have never forgotten.
Page 153 - I confess, that if I were called upon to name what spirit of evil predominantly deserved the name of Antichrist, I should name the spirit of chivalry — the more detestable for the very guise of the " Archangel ruined," which has made it so seductive to the most generous spirits — but to me so hateful, because it is in direct opposition to the impartial justice of the Gospel, and its comprehensive feeling of equal brotherhood, and because it so fostered a sense of honour rather than a sense of...
Page 83 - will never be what it might be, and what it ought to be." The remonstrances which he encountered both on public and private grounds were vehement and numerous. But on these terms alone had he taken his office...

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