The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... School , Chiswick - Harsh Treatment - His First Great Grief - Mistaken Views of Education - A Sad Childhood— Removed to Harrow - New Influences - State of his Mind on Religious Questions - First Visit to St. Giles's House - Love of ...
... School , Chiswick - Harsh Treatment - His First Great Grief - Mistaken Views of Education - A Sad Childhood— Removed to Harrow - New Influences - State of his Mind on Religious Questions - First Visit to St. Giles's House - Love of ...
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... School - A Disreputable Locality and its Tradi tions - Co - operation of Charles Dickens - A Novel Practice in the Church - Pews and Pew - rents - Birthday Reflections - Opposition to Collieries Bill - At Brocket - Riots in Manchester ...
... School - A Disreputable Locality and its Tradi tions - Co - operation of Charles Dickens - A Novel Practice in the Church - Pews and Pew - rents - Birthday Reflections - Opposition to Collieries Bill - At Brocket - Riots in Manchester ...
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... School . Among the rescued are two boys -- mere skin and bone in bundles of rags - whose sunken jaws and sparkling eyes tell the story of their sickness , and want , and premature decay . They are seated on either side of the tall ...
... School . Among the rescued are two boys -- mere skin and bone in bundles of rags - whose sunken jaws and sparkling eyes tell the story of their sickness , and want , and premature decay . They are seated on either side of the tall ...
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... schools coursing against Christ Church , the largest and most numerous college in the University . " " Coursing " was at one time a trial of learning , but in Ashley's day had degenerated into a trial of physical strength annoyance . He ...
... schools coursing against Christ Church , the largest and most numerous college in the University . " " Coursing " was at one time a trial of learning , but in Ashley's day had degenerated into a trial of physical strength annoyance . He ...
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... school - house stands in the middle of the village , and is the centre of many activities . The average school attendance in 1880 was one in four of the whole population . Not only in this village , but in the villages round about , the ...
... school - house stands in the middle of the village , and is the centre of many activities . The average school attendance in 1880 was one in four of the whole population . Not only in this village , but in the villages round about , the ...
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Page 494 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 139 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling, Turns the long light that...
Page 171 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Page 184 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 275 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 522 - This is the day which the LORD hath made ; Let us rejoice and be glad in it...
Page 380 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 85 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Page 512 - For GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 172 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.