The Life of Edward White Benson: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1Macmillan, 1899 - Bishops |
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... remembers that my grandfather , though a pronounced Evangelical , and holding high Sacramental views in sus- picion ... remember his maternal grandfather , Mr Thomas Baker , who had been Headmaster of the Lancastrian School , and was ...
... remembers that my grandfather , though a pronounced Evangelical , and holding high Sacramental views in sus- picion ... remember his maternal grandfather , Mr Thomas Baker , who had been Headmaster of the Lancastrian School , and was ...
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... remember that his view of cruelty to animals seemed extravagant to us ; he never allowed us to read books about hunting or wild sport , and I can well recollect his taking away from me a book given to me by some indiscreet friend ...
... remember that his view of cruelty to animals seemed extravagant to us ; he never allowed us to read books about hunting or wild sport , and I can well recollect his taking away from me a book given to me by some indiscreet friend ...
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... remember anything of that first visit . He came to us I think in the summer of 1844 , and went with us to stay at Swarcliff with my grandfather Greenwood . He also went with us to the sea - side . We were about three weeks at Seaton ...
... remember anything of that first visit . He came to us I think in the summer of 1844 , and went with us to stay at Swarcliff with my grandfather Greenwood . He also went with us to the sea - side . We were about three weeks at Seaton ...
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... remember a magni- ficent looking old man , with a somewhat leonine face , dressed like a Quaker , with a swallow - tail coat and frilled shirt - front , sitting in the midst of his books , which lay in some confusion ; he talked long ...
... remember a magni- ficent looking old man , with a somewhat leonine face , dressed like a Quaker , with a swallow - tail coat and frilled shirt - front , sitting in the midst of his books , which lay in some confusion ; he talked long ...
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... remember no thoughts , no words , no other remembrances even , but that she was beside a window and her face was towards the light - nothing else but a pure sensation of happiness . “ And I must have been a very young child when I used ...
... remember no thoughts , no words , no other remembrances even , but that she was beside a window and her face was towards the light - nothing else but a pure sensation of happiness . “ And I must have been a very young child when I used ...
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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.