The Life of Edward White Benson: Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1Macmillan, 1899 - Bishops |
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... expression of painful ex- pectation impressed itself very deeply on his childish mind . My father's early recollections of Church at Upton are curious and worth recording : ( I noted them down from his talk in 1878 ) the Church was ...
... expression of painful ex- pectation impressed itself very deeply on his childish mind . My father's early recollections of Church at Upton are curious and worth recording : ( I noted them down from his talk in 1878 ) the Church was ...
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... expression and unhesitating flow . Among other things , I think he could have recited most of the Psalter without a book , and a considerable part of it in the Latin Version , of which he was very fond . This gift of his was a special ...
... expression and unhesitating flow . Among other things , I think he could have recited most of the Psalter without a book , and a considerable part of it in the Latin Version , of which he was very fond . This gift of his was a special ...
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... said to his host , " You can hardly expect me to agree to that , when I owe to him all that I was or am or ever shall be . " Our host tried to qualify the expression : but my father was completely 1844-1848 39 LEE'S METHODS.
... said to his host , " You can hardly expect me to agree to that , when I owe to him all that I was or am or ever shall be . " Our host tried to qualify the expression : but my father was completely 1844-1848 39 LEE'S METHODS.
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Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury Arthur Christopher Benson. to qualify the expression : but my father was completely upset , and hardly said a word for the rest of the evening . As we went to bed he said to me , " Lee was the greatest ...
Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury Arthur Christopher Benson. to qualify the expression : but my father was completely upset , and hardly said a word for the rest of the evening . As we went to bed he said to me , " Lee was the greatest ...
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... - reading with them the Greek Testament , and expounding with his own most lucid and yet thrilling forms of expression , in terms that never missed one touch of accurate scholarship , 1844-1848 4I LEE'S RELIGIOUS TEACHING.
... - reading with them the Greek Testament , and expounding with his own most lucid and yet thrilling forms of expression , in terms that never missed one touch of accurate scholarship , 1844-1848 4I LEE'S RELIGIOUS TEACHING.
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Page 338 - ... 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.
Page 571 - 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, and more abundantly to you- ward.
Page 405 - Thou shalt preserve me from trouble: Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Page 62 - 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 327 - 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 453 - 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 405 - 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 261 - He always wins who sides with God, To him no chance is lost ; God's will is sweetest to him, when It triumphs at his cost.
Page 323 - So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid. 20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
Page 114 - 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.