A Book of Earnest LivesSwan, Sonnenschein, 1894 - 403 pages |
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Page 28
... observation and insight to good effect , the result being , in 1553 , the publication of a " Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany and the Emperor Charles his Court , during certain years while Roger Ascham was there ...
... observation and insight to good effect , the result being , in 1553 , the publication of a " Report and Discourse of the Affairs and State of Germany and the Emperor Charles his Court , during certain years while Roger Ascham was there ...
Page 35
... observed in many schoolmasters , who , though perhaps critics in grammar , are the most ignorant fellows upon earth . True knowledge con- sists in knowing things , not words . I would no further wish her a linguist than to enable her to ...
... observed in many schoolmasters , who , though perhaps critics in grammar , are the most ignorant fellows upon earth . True knowledge con- sists in knowing things , not words . I would no further wish her a linguist than to enable her to ...
Page 42
... observed with regret that multitudes of the rising generation of the poor were growing up in the same atmosphere , victims of an equal ignorance . 66 " The streets , " says his biographer , were full of noise and disturbance every ...
... observed with regret that multitudes of the rising generation of the poor were growing up in the same atmosphere , victims of an equal ignorance . 66 " The streets , " says his biographer , were full of noise and disturbance every ...
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... observed silence and good order prevail among them , and that , at the close of the service , instead of running promiscuously and hastily out of church , they took their ranks and walked in order two and two like a disciplined body ...
... observed silence and good order prevail among them , and that , at the close of the service , instead of running promiscuously and hastily out of church , they took their ranks and walked in order two and two like a disciplined body ...
Page 45
... observed to be less vile and profligate since atten . tion had been paid to the improvement of the children . With this information his lordship appeared sensibly affected , and immediately determined to give the measure all possible ...
... observed to be less vile and profligate since atten . tion had been paid to the improvement of the children . With this information his lordship appeared sensibly affected , and immediately determined to give the measure all possible ...
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afterwards Aitutaki Ascham attend beautiful benevolence blessed boys Buxton Cardington Carpenter character charity Christ Christian Church David Brainerd death delight devoted Divine duty earnest effort Eliot Elizabeth Fry endeavoured England English enthusiasm faith father feel felt friends gaol hand happy heart holy honour hope hospital Howard human Indians influence instruction island labour learning live London London Missionary Society Lord Martyn Mary Carpenter mind mission missionary moral morning natives never night noble Oberlin pain parish passed pastor patients persons poor prayer preached prison pupils Raiatea Raikes Rarotonga received reform religion religious remarkable Robert Raikes Roger Ascham says schools seemed sick Sister Dora Society soul spirit suffering Sunday teacher teaching things Thomas Fowell Buxton thought tion told took truth Vincent de Paul visited Waldbach Walsall Wilberforce Williams woman women words writes young
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Page 156 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 66 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 92 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 391 - I must hence to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work.
Page 395 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Page 291 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 164 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 106 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 22 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 291 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...