The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... tone down . his strong Protestantism ; his unshaken and unshakable belief in Scripture , in dogma , and in prayer . If he was wrong here , he was wrong throughout , for he was a PREFACE . xiii man with a single aim ; his xii PREFACE .
... tone down . his strong Protestantism ; his unshaken and unshakable belief in Scripture , in dogma , and in prayer . If he was wrong here , he was wrong throughout , for he was a PREFACE . xiii man with a single aim ; his xii PREFACE .
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... Prayer - Dawn of Reli- gious Life - Manor - House 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 ...
... Prayer - Dawn of Reli- gious Life - Manor - House 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 ...
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... - Bold- ness - The Slave Trade - Southey - Carlisle - Afternoon Service - Sir Walter Scott - The Poet Crabbe - Architecture of Kirks - Churches , A 194 . 230 Ancient and Modern - Extempore Prayer - Edinburgh Castle -
... - Bold- ness - The Slave Trade - Southey - Carlisle - Afternoon Service - Sir Walter Scott - The Poet Crabbe - Architecture of Kirks - Churches , A 194 . 230 Ancient and Modern - Extempore Prayer - Edinburgh Castle -
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Edwin Hodder. Ancient and Modern - Extempore Prayer - Edinburgh Castle - Annals of Scotland - In the Trossachs - Melancholy without Despondency— Charm of Scott's Genius - Rossie - The Northern Lights - The Carse of Gowrie Dunkeld ...
Edwin Hodder. Ancient and Modern - Extempore Prayer - Edinburgh Castle - Annals of Scotland - In the Trossachs - Melancholy without Despondency— Charm of Scott's Genius - Rossie - The Northern Lights - The Carse of Gowrie Dunkeld ...
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... prayer . 99 St. Giles's House stands in a beautfully wooded park of 423 acres . A fine avenue of trees extends from the centre of the east front to one of the entrance lodges , a distance of about a mile ; and another remarkably ...
... prayer . 99 St. Giles's House stands in a beautfully wooded park of 423 acres . A fine avenue of trees extends from the centre of the east front to one of the entrance lodges , a distance of about a mile ; and another remarkably ...
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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.