Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human KindnessW.S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1883 - 392 pages |
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... soon discover that every department of study supplies material for building up the superstructure of such an education . Do not the annals of great nations furnish abundant opportunities for illustrating and enforcing the providential ...
... soon discover that every department of study supplies material for building up the superstructure of such an education . Do not the annals of great nations furnish abundant opportunities for illustrating and enforcing the providential ...
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... soon wiped away , if fathers would bestow their children always on that thing where- unto nature hath ordained them most apt and fit . For if youth be grafted straight and not awry , the whole commonwealth will flourish thereafter ...
... soon wiped away , if fathers would bestow their children always on that thing where- unto nature hath ordained them most apt and fit . For if youth be grafted straight and not awry , the whole commonwealth will flourish thereafter ...
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... soon return to the right road , and keep it always in view . " It may be doubted whether this is , indeed , the special merit of a " learned education . " The classics have their uses ; but we should hardly be disposed to regard them as ...
... soon return to the right road , and keep it always in view . " It may be doubted whether this is , indeed , the special merit of a " learned education . " The classics have their uses ; but we should hardly be disposed to regard them as ...
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... soon took up a leading position among the influential men of his native city . His first essay as a philanthropist was made in connection with the city prisons ; for in the work of prison reform he preceded John Howard . The condition ...
... soon took up a leading position among the influential men of his native city . His first essay as a philanthropist was made in connection with the city prisons ; for in the work of prison reform he preceded John Howard . The condition ...
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... soon began to make known his intentions to the parents , and without much difficulty obtained their consent that their children should meet him at the early service performed in the Cathedral on a Sunday morning . The numbers at first ...
... soon began to make known his intentions to the parents , and without much difficulty obtained their consent that their children should meet him at the early service performed in the Cathedral on a Sunday morning . The numbers at first ...
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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.