Brave boys who have become illustrious men of our time1881 - 288 pages |
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Abel Heywood amongst animals Annita attention beautiful became birds boat canoe career Carlyle cause character Christian Church Cruikshank delight devoted duty earnest Ellis engaged England father feeling Forster friends Garibaldi George Cruikshank Gough hand happy Harrison Weir heart Henry Deane Heywood honour interest John John Bright kind knowledge labour land lectures literature live London London Missionary Society look Lord Manchester mind missionaries Moffat moral mother National native nature never night noble once passed poor practical Prince religious remarkable Richardson river Rob Roy Robert Moffat Ruskin Sandringham seed shillings Smithies Society soon speak suffered Sutton temperance things thought tion took truth W. H. Smith whole wild William Chambers William Edward Forster William Forster words young youth
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Page 231 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 50 - A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days, had saved his crown of spiritual manhood ; escaping from the black materialisms, and revolutionary deluges, with "God, Freedom, Immortality" still his : a king of men. The practical intellects of the world did not much heed him, or carelessly reckoned him a metaphysical dreamer : but to the rising spirits of the young generation he had this dusky sublime character ; and sat there as a kind of Magus, girt in mystery and enigma ; his Dodona oak-grove (Mr....
Page 190 - If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated.
Page 105 - THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest : In lark and nightingale we see What honour hath humility. When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus...
Page 80 - He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been for ever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love and the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart, which can only be discharged to the dust.
Page 193 - a dress, a ritual, a name, a ceremony, a technical phraseology, — the superstition of a priesthood without its power, — the form of Episcopal government without its substance,— a system imperfect and paralyzed, not independent, not sovereign, — afraid to cast off the subjection against which it was perpetually murmuring, — objects so pitiful, that, if gained ever so completely, they would make no man the wiser or the better; they would lead to no good, intellectual, moral, or spiritual.
Page 50 - Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Page 225 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 192 - ... the history of Greece and Rome is not an idle inquiry, about remote ages and forgotten institutions, but a living picture of things present, fitted not so much for the curiosity of the scholar, as for the instruction of the statesman and the citizen.
Page 49 - These authentic utterances of the man Oliver himself — I have gathered them from far and near; fished them up from the foul Lethean quagmires where they lay buried ; I have washed, or...