The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... receiving the support he had an- ticipated , and feeling that there was no longer safety for him in England , he determined , as he was broken in health , and weary with incessant toil , to make his escape to Holland . Disguised as a ...
... receiving the support he had an- ticipated , and feeling that there was no longer safety for him in England , he determined , as he was broken in health , and weary with incessant toil , to make his escape to Holland . Disguised as a ...
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... received no help from his parents in his religious life . His mother did not attempt to influence him in such matters ; his father , on one or two occasions , asked him a question from the Catechism , and the answer would meet with ...
... received no help from his parents in his religious life . His mother did not attempt to influence him in such matters ; his father , on one or two occasions , asked him a question from the Catechism , and the answer would meet with ...
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... received a most amiable answer . Lord Ashley's letter to Mrs. Canning is not forth- coming , but the tenor of it may be gathered from her reply : : - Mrs. ( afterwards Lady ) Canning to Lord Ashley . DOWNING STREET , Wednesday , Dec ...
... received a most amiable answer . Lord Ashley's letter to Mrs. Canning is not forth- coming , but the tenor of it may be gathered from her reply : : - Mrs. ( afterwards Lady ) Canning to Lord Ashley . DOWNING STREET , Wednesday , Dec ...
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... received the following characteristic reply : - --- The Duke of Wellington to Lord Ashley . STRATHFIELDSAYE , August 8th , 1827 . MY DEAR LORD ASHLEY , -It is very difficult to answer your question respecting the best military work for ...
... received the following characteristic reply : - --- The Duke of Wellington to Lord Ashley . STRATHFIELDSAYE , August 8th , 1827 . MY DEAR LORD ASHLEY , -It is very difficult to answer your question respecting the best military work for ...
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... received with a wonderful ovation ; deputa- tions from all parts of Wales being sent to welcome him . Frequently in after life he took pleasure in referring to this early experience . On one occasion , when addressing the Christian ...
... received with a wonderful ovation ; deputa- tions from all parts of Wales being sent to welcome him . Frequently in after life he took pleasure in referring to this early experience . On one occasion , when addressing the Christian ...
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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.