Life and Letters of Dean Church

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Macmillan and Company, 1894 - 355 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 264 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...
الصفحة 307 - Gladstone was very kind, and people round him talked in a way which accounts for the newspaper gossip. Benson is, I really believe, the best choice that could have been made in England. Everything that he has touched he has done well. He is quiet and he is enthusiastic, and he is conciliatory, and he is firm But of one thing I am quite certain ; that never for hundreds of years has so much honest disinterested pains been taken to fill the Primacy — such enquiry and trouble resolutely followed out...
الصفحة 325 - The glorious company of the apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee. The noble army of martyrs praise thee. The holy church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee, the Father of an infinite majesty ; thine honourable, true and only Son ; also the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
الصفحة 244 - House with his presence as often as possible; indeed was quite friendly and patronising to his fallen rival. The Bill for the Regulation of Public Worship was not a Government measure. It was introduced into the House of Lords by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and into the House of Commons by Mr. Russell Gurney. It...
الصفحة 200 - It is clear that what I am to come in for is very tough practical business, and that I am not to be as other Deans have been. It is to set St. Paul's in order, as the great English Cathedral, before the eyes of the country.
الصفحة 324 - And what all see is, that while Mr. Bell Cox goes to prison for having lighted candles, and mixed water with the wine, and refusing to give up such things, dignified clergy of the Church can make open questions of the personality of God, and the fact of the Resurrection, and the promise of immortality.
الصفحة 21 - The next and last day vivA voce again, in the same way, not quite so bad, because you were more accustomed to it, but still very horrible; and then you went home. If you were elected, the Provost's servant called on you the next day, with the Provost's compliments, and requested your presence at the scene of your late torture, the Tower; and you went and received the congratulations of the Provost and Fellows ; and later you were admitted Probationer Fellow in chapel. You were introduced after service...
الصفحة 345 - Oxford days ; while by those near the Dean, it was always recognised that Newman was a name apart, the symbol, as it were, of a debt too great and a friendship too intimate and complex, to bear being lightly spoken of, or subjected to the ordinary measures of praise or blame.

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