The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1Macmillan, 1899 - Bishops |
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... felt as familiarly as a contemporary author . And yet the chief power lay in the method : it was not so much the teaching he infused as the ardour he aroused , as the truth - seeking spirit he created , in those who were worthy . " And ...
... felt as familiarly as a contemporary author . And yet the chief power lay in the method : it was not so much the teaching he infused as the ardour he aroused , as the truth - seeking spirit he created , in those who were worthy . " And ...
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... felt to be the very keynote of his life by one or two to whom full twenty years after he said - ' There is but one word I would wish to have upon my gravestone , and it is a Greek word of course , ' he added with a smile , ' it is the ...
... felt to be the very keynote of his life by one or two to whom full twenty years after he said - ' There is but one word I would wish to have upon my gravestone , and it is a Greek word of course , ' he added with a smile , ' it is the ...
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... felt in setting about it . It seemed such a privilege and honour to be actually setting down on paper what one thought of Mr Lee , and something that should be read by 500 boys about him , and how all would hate me if I did not praise ...
... felt in setting about it . It seemed such a privilege and honour to be actually setting down on paper what one thought of Mr Lee , and something that should be read by 500 boys about him , and how all would hate me if I did not praise ...
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... felt bound to cheer tremendously , and so they did - but the general expression as they sat down again was— " I'm not glad a bit if Mr Lee's to go . " O happy Lightfoot , happy all that enjoyed his latest teaching , and miserable me ...
... felt bound to cheer tremendously , and so they did - but the general expression as they sat down again was— " I'm not glad a bit if Mr Lee's to go . " O happy Lightfoot , happy all that enjoyed his latest teaching , and miserable me ...
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... felt your heart yearn towards him , and when you observed what a thrill ran through the congregation , you must have said , " Surely if there be a man whom God has raised up in this generation with more than common powers to glorify His ...
... felt your heart yearn towards him , and when you observed what a thrill ran through the congregation , you must have said , " Surely if there be a man whom God has raised up in this generation with more than common powers to glorify His ...
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Page iii - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; 30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 110 - Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.
Page 106 - God, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end : thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Page 116 - ... greater is he that is in them than he that is in the world...
Page 447 - This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Page 563 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, 13 and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 397 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found : surely in the floods- of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Page 321 - Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Page 60 - No, indeed: but an obscure, harmless man; a man in poor clothes, his loins usually girt in a coarse gown, or canonical coat; of a mean stature, and stooping, and yet more lowly in the thoughts of his soul; his body worn out, not with age, but study and holy mortifications; his face full of heat-pimples, begot by his unactivity and sedentary life.
Page 330 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.