Essays: Political, Social and Religious

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1892
 

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Página 285 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Página 352 - Here thou to us, of charity and love, Art, as the noon-day torch ; and art, beneath, To mortal men, of hope a living spring. So mighty art thou, Lady, and so great, That he, who grace desireth, and comes not To thee for aidance, fain would have desire Fly without wings.
Página 558 - Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, 1 So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 128 - Well then, what would honourable gentleman say if they were reading of a country in that position ? They would say at once, the remedy is revolution.
Página 384 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Página 41 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 37 - A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon me the duty of taking military measures with a view to the prompt vindication of my authority ; and has of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs, without prejudice to the interests of the natives, which I had been desirous to confer.
Página 515 - O Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son! Created beings all in lowliness Surpassing, as in height above them all...
Página 128 - That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an Established Church which was not their Church ; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starring population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world.
Página 337 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

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