College Life: Letters to an Under-graduateJ. T. Walters, 1845 - 138 pages |
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Page 16 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 25 - For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline, and the care of discipline is love: And love is the keeping of her laws ; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption ; And incorruption maketh us near unto God: Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.
Page 9 - HOLY BAPTISM. The Offices of Baptism, according to the Use of the English Church ; with Select Passages, Meditations, and Prayers. Cloth, 2s. 6d. HOLY EUCHARIST, Celebration of the. Reprinted from the "Ecclesiastic." 6d. THE HOLY EUCHARIST the enjoined Worship of Gon in. "Spirit and in Truth," and the "Pure Offering
Page 135 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 100 - For the absence of method, which characterizes the uneducated, is occasioned by an habitual submission of the understanding to mere events and images as such, and independent of any power in the mind to classify or appropriate them. The general accompaniments of time and place are the only relations which persons of this class appear to regard in their statements.
Page 2 - Of this thing, however, be certain: wouldst thou plant for Eternity, then plant into the deep infinite faculties of man, his Fantasy and Heart; wouldst thou plant for Year and Day, then plant into his shallow superficial faculties, his Self-love and Arithmetical Understanding, what will grow there.
Page 44 - HERE Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, More promptly rises, walks with stricter heed, More safely rests, dies happier, is freed Earlier from cleansing fires and gains withal A brighter crown.
Page 19 - THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH. This Work contains a large and varied collection of Treatises, Tracts, Sermons, &c. by the older Divines ; translations from the Fathers ; Biography. Church History ; interspersed with Poetry, Anecdotes, and short Theological extracts. The whole is illustrated by original Notes, Prefaces, and...
Page 96 - What man is amid the brute creation, such is the Church among the schools of the world ; and as Adam gave names to the animals about him, so has the Church from the first looked round upon the earth, noting and visiting the doctrines she found there. She began in Chaldea, and then sojourned among the Canaanites, and went down into Egypt, and thence passed into Arabia, till she rested in her own land. Next she encountered the merchants of Tyre, and the wisdom of the East country, and the luxury of...
Page 17 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century ; not...