Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General GordonG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918 - 351 pages |
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... Oxford , his tastes , his ambitions , his successes at the Union , all seemed to mark him out for a political career . He was a year junior to Samuel Wilberforce , and a year senior to Gladstone . In those days the Union was the ...
... Oxford , his tastes , his ambitions , his successes at the Union , all seemed to mark him out for a political career . He was a year junior to Samuel Wilberforce , and a year senior to Gladstone . In those days the Union was the ...
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... Oxford , the brimming cup was dashed from his lips . He was already beginning to dream of himself in the House of Commons , the solitary advocate of some great cause whose triumph was to be eventually brought about by his extraordinary ...
... Oxford , the brimming cup was dashed from his lips . He was already beginning to dream of himself in the House of Commons , the solitary advocate of some great cause whose triumph was to be eventually brought about by his extraordinary ...
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... Oxford and took orders . He was elected to the Merton Fellowship , and obtained through the influence of the Wilberforces a curacy in Sussex . At the last moment he almost drew back . " I think the whole step has been too precipitate ...
... Oxford and took orders . He was elected to the Merton Fellowship , and obtained through the influence of the Wilberforces a curacy in Sussex . At the last moment he almost drew back . " I think the whole step has been too precipitate ...
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... Oxford . The " Oxford Move- ment , " in fact , had started on its course . The phrase is still familiar ; but its meaning has become somewhat obscured both by the lapse of time and the intrinsic ambiguity of the subjects connected with ...
... Oxford . The " Oxford Move- ment , " in fact , had started on its course . The phrase is still familiar ; but its meaning has become somewhat obscured both by the lapse of time and the intrinsic ambiguity of the subjects connected with ...
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... Oxford at the age of fifteen , where , after a successful academic career , he had been made a fel- low of Oriel . He had then returned to his father's parish and taken up the duties of a curate . He had a thorough knowledge of the ...
... Oxford at the age of fifteen , where , after a successful academic career , he had been made a fel- low of Oriel . He had then returned to his father's parish and taken up the duties of a curate . He had a thorough knowledge of the ...
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Page 329 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 209 - Shall I tell him to mind his work, and say he's sent to school to make himself a good scholar ? Well, but he isn't sent to school for that — at any rate, not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma, no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? Well, partly because he wanted so to go. If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman, and a Christian, that's all I want...
Page 310 - THEY that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
Page 235 - And I thank God that, as far as ambition is concerned, it is, I trust, fully mortified ; I have no desire other than to step back from my present place in the world, and not to rise to a higher. Still there are works which, with God's permission, I would do before the night cometh ; especially that great work,* if I might be permitted to take part in it. But above all, let me mind my own personal work — to keep myself pure and zealous and believing...
Page 213 - Europe with all the, curses of the age of chivalry, and is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism At an age when it is almost impossible to find a true manly sense of the degradation of guilt or faults, where is the wisdom of encouraging a fantastic sense of the degradation of personal correction ? What can be more false, or more adverse to the simplicity, sobriety, and humbleness of mind, which are the best ornament of youth, and the best promise of a noble manhood ? " * 2. But his object was...
Page 203 - Oriel, in which it was predicted that, if Mr. Arnold were elected to the head-mastership of Rugby, he would change the face of education all through the public schools of England.
Page 337 - Now MARK THIS, if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than two hundred men, does not come in ten days, the town may fall; and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good-bye.
Page 208 - I repeat now: what we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principle; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Page 132 - Florence would show a proper appreciation of them by doing her duty in that state of life unto which it had pleased God to call her...