 | 1850 - 682 pages
...would be * sort of living salt to the whole, and would exhibit that union which I never will content to think unattainable between goodness and wisdom...between everything that is manly, sensible, and free, ¡i nr I everything that is pure, and selfdenying, and humble, and heavenly." It was great disappointment... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1852 - 812 pages
...in us now to dismiss the principles of the Gospel and its great motives from our consideration, — as is done habitually, for example, in Miss Edgeworth's...pure and self-denying, and humble, and heavenly." His communications with the Society, made, however, from the nature of the case, rather through individuals... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1852 - 250 pages
...slightest touches of Christian principle and Christian hope in common writings on biography and history would be a sort of living salt to the whole ; —...is pure and selfdenying, and humble, and heavenly. 1826. Life, p. 182. 15. My highest ambition, and what I hope to do as far as I can, is to make my history... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1859 - 252 pages
...saw no reason why it might not be wisely and usefully occupied. " The slightest touches," he says, " of Christian, principle and Christian hope in the...is pure and self-denying, and humble and heavenly. At one time he communicated rather frequently with some individuals connected with the Society ; but... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1860 - 408 pages
...in us now to dismiss the principles of the Gospel and its great motives from our consideration, — as is done habitually, for example, in Miss Edgeworth's...pure and self-denying, and humble, and heavenly." His communications with the Society, made, however, from the nature of the case, rather through individuals... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1870 - 426 pages
...saw no reason why it might not be wisely and usefully occupied. " The slightest touches," he says, " of Christian principle and Christian hope, in the...is pure and self-denying, and humble and heavenly. At one time he communicated rather frequently with some individuals connected with the Society ; but... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 518 pages
...sitting close to my table at a separate desk, writing incessantly. To some he might have looked as a veiy suspicious person, who was placed there to note down...and spiritual, than any other society in existence." •(• He was anxious, he wrote, " to furnish them regularly with articles of the kind that I desire."... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 516 pages
...salt to the whole ; and would exhibit that union which I never will consent to think unattain15 able, between goodness and wisdom ; between everything that...and spiritual, than any other society in existence." ^ He was anxious, he wrote, " to furnish them regularly with articles of the kind that I desire." For... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1877 - 794 pages
...style of the Bible. The slightest touches of Christian principle and Christian hope in the Soeiety's biographical and historical articles would be a sort...manly. sensible, and free, and everything that is pure aud self-denying, and humble, and heavenly." His communications with the Society, made, however, from... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1877 - 796 pages
...historical articles would be a sort of living salt to the whole; — and would exhibit that union which l never will consent to think unattainable, between...pure and self-denying, and humble, and heavenly." His communications with the Society, made, however, from the nature of the case, rather through individuals... | |
| |
Gospel and its great motives from our consideration, — as is done habitually, for example, in Miss Edgeworth's books, — as it is to fill our pages with Hebraisms, and to write and speak in the words and style of the Bible. The slightest touches of... 
