Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General GordonG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918 - 351 pages |
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... called an accidental circumstance that there were five loaves , not more nor less , in the store of Our Lord and His disciples wherewith to provide the miraculous feast . But the ancient interpreters treat it as designed and pro ...
... called an accidental circumstance that there were five loaves , not more nor less , in the store of Our Lord and His disciples wherewith to provide the miraculous feast . But the ancient interpreters treat it as designed and pro ...
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... called Regeneration , which all my friends are reading and highly extolling ; it has a very contrary effect to what he would desire on my mind . I can read and understand it all in an altogether different sense , and the facts which he ...
... called Regeneration , which all my friends are reading and highly extolling ; it has a very contrary effect to what he would desire on my mind . I can read and understand it all in an altogether different sense , and the facts which he ...
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... called , had not only known , but for which they had suffered , for generations . Cardinal Wiseman , it is true , was no convert ; he belonged to one of the oldest of the Catholic families ; but he had spent most of his life in Rome ...
... called , had not only known , but for which they had suffered , for generations . Cardinal Wiseman , it is true , was no convert ; he belonged to one of the oldest of the Catholic families ; but he had spent most of his life in Rome ...
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... called forth universal approbation . With such accomplishments , it could hardly be expected that Monsignor Talbot should be remarkable either for a delicate sense of conscientiousness or for an extreme refinement of feeling , but then ...
... called forth universal approbation . With such accomplishments , it could hardly be expected that Monsignor Talbot should be remarkable either for a delicate sense of conscientiousness or for an extreme refinement of feeling , but then ...
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... called me by name . Everything else has passed out of my mind . The firm belief that I have long had that the Holy Father is the most supernatural person I have ever seen has given me this feeling more deeply still . I feel as if I had ...
... called me by name . Everything else has passed out of my mind . The firm belief that I have long had that the Holy Father is the most supernatural person I have ever seen has given me this feeling more deeply still . I feel as if I had ...
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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...