The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Volume 2J. Murray, 1897 |
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... mean Materialism . He admitted that would occasionally happen , but he regarded Materialism as a passing phase , inseparable from great transitions of opinion . He had always been for God and the people . ' He spoke with great hope of ...
... mean Materialism . He admitted that would occasionally happen , but he regarded Materialism as a passing phase , inseparable from great transitions of opinion . He had always been for God and the people . ' He spoke with great hope of ...
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... mean to give a condensed sketch of each of the great religions , and then make applications of them to ourselves . I intend also at the beginning to say something against Darwin , and to show what appears to me to be the bearing of the ...
... mean to give a condensed sketch of each of the great religions , and then make applications of them to ourselves . I intend also at the beginning to say something against Darwin , and to show what appears to me to be the bearing of the ...
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... others in which I think they have a claim to honour and gratitude - I mean in the manner in which they have assisted young men of merit , bringing them forward out of obscurity into the light of day . 14 [ CHAP . I Life of Benjamin Jowett.
... others in which I think they have a claim to honour and gratitude - I mean in the manner in which they have assisted young men of merit , bringing them forward out of obscurity into the light of day . 14 [ CHAP . I Life of Benjamin Jowett.
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... mean the translation , or rather shall have done so in two days . I was elected chairman of the Board of Studies for the Literae Humaniores Final Exam . I mean to hold this for life . The Bishop 2 has disallowed our ' Versicles ' and ...
... mean the translation , or rather shall have done so in two days . I was elected chairman of the Board of Studies for the Literae Humaniores Final Exam . I mean to hold this for life . The Bishop 2 has disallowed our ' Versicles ' and ...
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... mean to cherish the illusion , which is not an illusion , that the last years of life are the most valuable and important , and every year I shall try in some way or other to do more than the year before . To SIR A. GRANT . INGLEWOOD ...
... mean to cherish the illusion , which is not an illusion , that the last years of life are the most valuable and important , and every year I shall try in some way or other to do more than the year before . To SIR A. GRANT . INGLEWOOD ...
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Page 410 - BURY the Great Duke With an empire's lamentation, Let us bury the Great Duke To the noise of the mourning of a mighty (nation, Mourning when their leaders fall, Warriors carry the warrior's pall, And sorrow darkens hamlet and hall.
Page 358 - The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.... Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Page 185 - The time is out of joint : — 0, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right ! — Nay, come, let 's go together.
Page 36 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Page 465 - Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said William Norris as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names: Wm.
Page 439 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
Page 432 - Crito; is there anything else? There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyes and mouth. Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best.
Page 58 - ... turn to the mystery from which it has emerged, seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith ; so long as this is done, not only without intolerance or bigotry of any kind, but with the enlightened recognition that ultimate fixity of conception is here unattainable, and that each succeeding age must be...
Page 410 - ... yawns: the mortal disappears; Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Page 102 - On, onward strain, Brave barks ! In light, in darkness too, Through winds and tides one compass guides — To that, and your own selves, be true. But O blithe breeze! and O great seas, Though ne'er, that earliest parting past, On your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought, alike they sought, One purpose hold where'er they fare, — O bounding breeze, O rushing seas ! At last, at last, unite them there ! Qui LABORAT, ORAT.