The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 37
Page x
... suffering from illness which confined him to the house , and he determined to occupy his enforced leisure , in looking through and burning old papers . The Diaries were consigned to a heap awaiting destruction ; but , in the meantime ...
... suffering from illness which confined him to the house , and he determined to occupy his enforced leisure , in looking through and burning old papers . The Diaries were consigned to a heap awaiting destruction ; but , in the meantime ...
Page 42
... suffering from cold . It is not well to dwell upon these details - it may be considered unwise to have referred to them at all . But they are necessary to the right appreciation of his subsequent career . No one who knew Lord Shaftes ...
... suffering from cold . It is not well to dwell upon these details - it may be considered unwise to have referred to them at all . But they are necessary to the right appreciation of his subsequent career . No one who knew Lord Shaftes ...
Page 60
... suffer from the brazen faces and low insults of that Radical party ! I am not fit for their accursed effrontery , which sneers at every sentiment of a gentleman , and is backed by the applause of those who pretend to education ! Hume's ...
... suffer from the brazen faces and low insults of that Radical party ! I am not fit for their accursed effrontery , which sneers at every sentiment of a gentleman , and is backed by the applause of those who pretend to education ! Hume's ...
Page 69
... suffer this lying and deceit to prosper ? Why am I so weak and useless ? Why cannot I utter one word of eloquence or manliness ? July 19th . - What a gap in one's notes . I am at Strathfieldsaye . Duke gone to Windsor by special message ...
... suffer this lying and deceit to prosper ? Why am I so weak and useless ? Why cannot I utter one word of eloquence or manliness ? July 19th . - What a gap in one's notes . I am at Strathfieldsaye . Duke gone to Windsor by special message ...
Page 127
... suffer this , and it is not , I fear , by such lenient means that we are to be saved . Many of the letters relate to books and their authors , Lord Ashley's literary taste and judgment being held in very high esteem by Southey ...
... suffer this , and it is not , I fear , by such lenient means that we are to be saved . Many of the letters relate to books and their authors , Lord Ashley's literary taste and judgment being held in very high esteem by Southey ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
become believe Bill blessed called carried cause character Christian Church classes Committee Commons course DEAR desire Diary Duke effect efforts England express fact Factory fear feel give given God's Government hand happy heart honour hope House human influence interest Italy kind King labour Lady letter London look Lord Ashley Lord John Russell matter means measure meeting mind Minister moral nature never night object opinion Parliament party passed Peel persons political poor prayer present principles proposed Queen question received regard religious respect Robert Peel seems Shaftesbury Sir Robert Society speak speech spirit success suffering sure taken thank things thought tion took views whole wish young
Popular passages
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.