The Life of Edward White Benson: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1Macmillan, 1899 - Bishops |
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... Leaving Lincoln - Consecration - Enthronement - Lines of work- Dissent in Cornwall - Tours in the Diocese - Letters -- The death of his eldest son Martin . CHAPTER XIII . ( 1879. ) ( Truro continued ) -The Cathedral - Laying the ...
... Leaving Lincoln - Consecration - Enthronement - Lines of work- Dissent in Cornwall - Tours in the Diocese - Letters -- The death of his eldest son Martin . CHAPTER XIII . ( 1879. ) ( Truro continued ) -The Cathedral - Laying the ...
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... Leaving Truro - Farewell sermon at Kenwyn . CHAPTER XVI . Addington - Lambeth Palace - Sermons and Speeches - Personal appearance - Functions - Social talents - Conversation and Stories- Reading- " Table - talk " -Fondness for Animals ...
... Leaving Truro - Farewell sermon at Kenwyn . CHAPTER XVI . Addington - Lambeth Palace - Sermons and Speeches - Personal appearance - Functions - Social talents - Conversation and Stories- Reading- " Table - talk " -Fondness for Animals ...
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... leaving two children . She was one of the pioneers of the Girls ' High School movement . 6. Charles , born 1842 , who was for many years Manager of the Oakeley Slate Quarries at Portmadoc in North Wales . He died in 1893 . 7. William ...
... leaving two children . She was one of the pioneers of the Girls ' High School movement . 6. Charles , born 1842 , who was for many years Manager of the Oakeley Slate Quarries at Portmadoc in North Wales . He died in 1893 . 7. William ...
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... leaving four sons and two daughters , my mother being his youngest child . About 1836 my father began his first lessons . His father had curious and original ideas on the subject of education , and in order to train my father in a sense ...
... leaving four sons and two daughters , my mother being his youngest child . About 1836 my father began his first lessons . His father had curious and original ideas on the subject of education , and in order to train my father in a sense ...
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... leaving them square . Here he said the Canonical Hours daily , alone , or with some school friend - and he had several - of like tastes . But what redeems this story from the domain of pre- cocious sentiment is , that my father was much ...
... leaving them square . Here he said the Canonical Hours daily , alone , or with some school friend - and he had several - of like tastes . But what redeems this story from the domain of pre- cocious sentiment is , that my father was much ...
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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.