Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General GordonG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918 - 351 pages |
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... boy came in from the farm- yard , and his mother asked him whether he had seen the peacock . " I said yes , and the nurse said no , and my mother made me kneel down and beg God to for- give me for not speaking the truth . " At the age ...
... boy came in from the farm- yard , and his mother asked him whether he had seen the peacock . " I said yes , and the nurse said no , and my mother made me kneel down and beg God to for- give me for not speaking the truth . " At the age ...
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... boys , herded together in miscellaneous boarding - houses , or in that grim " Long Chamber " at whose name in after years aged statesmen and warriors would turn pale , lived , badgered and over - awed by the furious incursions of an ...
... boys , herded together in miscellaneous boarding - houses , or in that grim " Long Chamber " at whose name in after years aged statesmen and warriors would turn pale , lived , badgered and over - awed by the furious incursions of an ...
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... boys something more than the bleak rigidities of the ancient tongues ; but how much more important to instil into them the elements of character and the principles of conduct ! His great object , throughout his career at Rugby , was ...
... boys something more than the bleak rigidities of the ancient tongues ; but how much more important to instil into them the elements of character and the principles of conduct ! His great object , throughout his career at Rugby , was ...
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... boys at Rugby as Jehovah had treated the Chosen People : he would found a theocracy ; and there should be Judges in Israel . For this purpose , the system , prevalent in most of the public schools of the day , by which the elder boys ...
... boys at Rugby as Jehovah had treated the Chosen People : he would found a theocracy ; and there should be Judges in Israel . For this purpose , the system , prevalent in most of the public schools of the day , by which the elder boys ...
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... boys who sat under him . One of these , writing long afterwards , has described , in phrases still impregnated with awestruck reverence , the familiar details of the scene : - " the glance with which he looked round in the few moments ...
... boys who sat under him . One of these , writing long afterwards , has described , in phrases still impregnated with awestruck reverence , the familiar details of the scene : - " the glance with which he looked round in the few moments ...
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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...