One Look BackW. Gardner, Darton & Company, Limited, 1912 - 368 páginas |
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... Christian Year . I was always impatient of the attempt , even when made by the most respectable people , to per- vert plain English , and I felt perfect confidence in building the Catholic superstructure on my Evan- gelical foundation ...
... Christian Year . I was always impatient of the attempt , even when made by the most respectable people , to per- vert plain English , and I felt perfect confidence in building the Catholic superstructure on my Evan- gelical foundation ...
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... Christian Scientist ; and , when feeling one's pulse , they produced the largest and most audibly - ticking gold watches conceivable by the horologist's art . They had what were called " the courtly manners of the old school " ; were ...
... Christian Scientist ; and , when feeling one's pulse , they produced the largest and most audibly - ticking gold watches conceivable by the horologist's art . They had what were called " the courtly manners of the old school " ; were ...
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... well as if I had heard it yesterday . It was directed against Lying , as not only un - Christian but ungentleman- like . As he stood on the dais , one hand grasping his gown behind his back and the other marking his HARROW 25.
... well as if I had heard it yesterday . It was directed against Lying , as not only un - Christian but ungentleman- like . As he stood on the dais , one hand grasping his gown behind his back and the other marking his HARROW 25.
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... Angel of youthful innocence . Dr. Vaughan , no lover of exaggerated phrases , called him , in a memorial sermon , " the Christ of Harrow " ; and there must be many a man now liv- ing who , as he looks back , feels that HARROW 29.
... Angel of youthful innocence . Dr. Vaughan , no lover of exaggerated phrases , called him , in a memorial sermon , " the Christ of Harrow " ; and there must be many a man now liv- ing who , as he looks back , feels that HARROW 29.
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... holy life interpreted to many The Mind which was in Christ Jesus , The Promise of the Comforter , And the Vision granted to the Pure in Heart . listened with becoming solemnity to that droll chapter about " 50 ONE LOOK BACK.
... holy life interpreted to many The Mind which was in Christ Jesus , The Promise of the Comforter , And the Vision granted to the Pure in Heart . listened with becoming solemnity to that droll chapter about " 50 ONE LOOK BACK.
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Página 153 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 92 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings; a sceptred isle,* for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace...
Página 8 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 92 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Página 180 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 106 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 232 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Página 328 - Let no man think that sudden in a minute all is accomplished and the work is done; — Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it scarce were it ended in thy setting sun.
Página 104 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen.
Página 9 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.