Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General GordonG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918 - 351 pages |
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... young politicians ; Ministers came down from London to listen to the debates ; and a few years later the Duke of Newcastle gave Gladstone a pocket borough on the strength of his speech at the Union against the Reform Bill . To those ...
... young politicians ; Ministers came down from London to listen to the debates ; and a few years later the Duke of Newcastle gave Gladstone a pocket borough on the strength of his speech at the Union against the Reform Bill . To those ...
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... young man listened , was silent , and said as last that he did not know but she was right . She suggested reading the Bible together ; and they ac- cordingly did so during the whole of that vacation , It every morning after breakfast ...
... young man listened , was silent , and said as last that he did not know but she was right . She suggested reading the Bible together ; and they ac- cordingly did so during the whole of that vacation , It every morning after breakfast ...
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... young man without prospects , and forbade him the house . was only too true ; what were the prospects of a super- numerary clerk in the Colonial Office ? Manning went to Oxford and took orders . He was elected to the Merton Fellowship ...
... young man without prospects , and forbade him the house . was only too true ; what were the prospects of a super- numerary clerk in the Colonial Office ? Manning went to Oxford and took orders . He was elected to the Merton Fellowship ...
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... let it be . Time effaces all things . " But , when the grave was yet fresh , the young Rector would sit beside it , day after day , writing his sermons . II IN the meantime a series of events was taking ΙΟ EMINENT VICTORIANS.
... let it be . Time effaces all things . " But , when the grave was yet fresh , the young Rector would sit beside it , day after day , writing his sermons . II IN the meantime a series of events was taking ΙΟ EMINENT VICTORIANS.
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... young clergyman of the name of John Keble . He had gone to 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 ...
... young clergyman of the name of John Keble . He had gone to 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 ...
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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...