Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human KindnessW.S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1883 - 392 pages |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 coun ...
... 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 coun ...
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Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human Kindness William Henry Davenport Adams No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 166 - 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 75 - ... 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 102 - 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 401 - Tell them to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh, when no man can work.
Page 174 - 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 278 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 32 - 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 299 - 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...
Page 299 - ... 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. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 80 - And there should be no greater comfort to christian persons than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain ; he entered not into his glory before he was crucified.