The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... spirit of the instructions given to me by Lord Shaftesbury . For example , on one occasion he had been narrating to me . some incidents in the life of the late Countess of Shaftesbury , in connection with his factory labours , and ...
... spirit of the instructions given to me by Lord Shaftesbury . For example , on one occasion he had been narrating to me . some incidents in the life of the late Countess of Shaftesbury , in connection with his factory labours , and ...
Page xiii
... , political , benevolent , and religious , was begun , continued , and ended in one and the same spirit . 21 , CRAVEN PARK , Willesden , N.W. , October , 1886 . E. H. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY AND HOME . The Coopers.
... , political , benevolent , and religious , was begun , continued , and ended in one and the same spirit . 21 , CRAVEN PARK , Willesden , N.W. , October , 1886 . E. H. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY AND HOME . The Coopers.
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... spirit of the home , were all opposed to the early bent of his mind which , from his earliest years , was in the direction of the career he ultimately made for himself . He received no help from his parents in his religious life . His ...
... spirit of the home , were all opposed to the early bent of his mind which , from his earliest years , was in the direction of the career he ultimately made for himself . He received no help from his parents in his religious life . His ...
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... perturbations of spirit were allayed , and the prospects of life looked brighter than they had ever 364 . # 44 Harrow School and its Surroundings , " by Percy M. Thornton , p . done before as he viewed them under the influence of.
... perturbations of spirit were allayed , and the prospects of life looked brighter than they had ever 364 . # 44 Harrow School and its Surroundings , " by Percy M. Thornton , p . done before as he viewed them under the influence of.
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... spirit of application ; but generally speaking , I have stilled the passions . An attachment during my residence at Vienna commenced a course of self - knowledge for me . Man never has loved more furiously or more imprudently . The ...
... spirit of application ; but generally speaking , I have stilled the passions . An attachment during my residence at Vienna commenced a course of self - knowledge for me . Man never has loved more furiously or more imprudently . 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.