Gleanings of Past Years, Випуск 39,Том 7John Murray, 1879 |
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Gleanings of Past Years, 1843-78: Miscellaneous (1860-79) William Ewart Gladstone Повний перегляд - 1879 |
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action admit ancient appears argument authority believe body bound called character Christian common condition course deity Divine doubt duty effect element England Established Established Church Evangelical evidence existence fact favour follow force give Government Greece Greek ground hand Hellenic Homer human idea important influence institutions interest Ireland Irish Church kind knowledge learning least less living Lord maintained manner materials matter means measure ment mind moral nature never NOTE object observe once opinion original party passed perhaps period political position practice present principle probable proposition question race reason reference regard relation religion religious remains remarkable respect seems sense side spirit supplied teaching things thought tion tradition true truth University whole worship
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Сторінка 181 - He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Сторінка 36 - Think not but that I know these things ; or think I know them not, not therefore am I short Of knowing what I...
Сторінка 215 - Knowledge, and the Society for the 'Propagation of the Gospel. In...
Сторінка 36 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Сторінка 118 - I felt myself open to the charge of being opinionated and wanting in deference to really great authorities, and I could not but know that I should inevitably be regarded as fastidious and fanciful, fitter for a dreamer, or possibly a schoolman, than for the active purposes of public life in a busy and moving age.
Сторінка 118 - The political association in which I stood was to me, at the time, the alpha and omega of public life. The Government of Sir Robert Peel was believed to be of immovable strength. My place, as President of the Board of Trade, was at the very kernel of its most interesting operations, for it was in progress from year to year, with continually waxing courage, towards the emancipation of industry, and therein towards the accomplishment of another great and blessed work of public justice. Giving up what...
Сторінка 89 - For she is. the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness.
Сторінка 88 - For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit, holy, one only, manifold, subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good, quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good...
Сторінка 25 - In many things it is wise to believe before experience ; to believe, until you may know ; and believe me when I tell you that the thrift of time will repay you in after life with an usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and that the waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and in moral stature, beneath your darkest reckonings.
Сторінка 141 - Israel," and a true saint, if this generation has seen one, did not reside in Oxford.* The chief Chair of Theology had been occupied by Bishop Lloyd, the old tutor, and the attached and intimate friend, of Peel : a man of powerful talents, and of a character both winning and decided, who, had his life been spared, might have modified essentially for good the fortunes of the Church of England, by guiding the energetic influences which his teaching had done much to form. But he had been hurried away...