Sermons by a Lay Headmaster, Preached at Gresham's School, 1900-1918Longmans, Green and Company, 1920 - 147 sider |
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... look on failure as a spur to fresh effort , seeing in each blunder some- thing to be retrieved . Do you make compacts and break them , silencing your conscience with : " It is what you do , " " Other fellows do it ? " The question of ...
... look on failure as a spur to fresh effort , seeing in each blunder some- thing to be retrieved . Do you make compacts and break them , silencing your conscience with : " It is what you do , " " Other fellows do it ? " The question of ...
Side 6
... look back . How full of mistakes , of blunders , of wrong , yes , and of evil ! Let us pray to be filled , as we look at our past , with a divine discontent ; but let there be no despair , " for westward , look , the land is bright ...
... look back . How full of mistakes , of blunders , of wrong , yes , and of evil ! Let us pray to be filled , as we look at our past , with a divine discontent ; but let there be no despair , " for westward , look , the land is bright ...
Side 13
George William Saul Howson. and the reason is that we are so apt to look upon helpfulness as a special gift , given only to some ; instead of being , as it must be , a true part of the humanity of every one , without which each one is ...
George William Saul Howson. and the reason is that we are so apt to look upon helpfulness as a special gift , given only to some ; instead of being , as it must be , a true part of the humanity of every one , without which each one is ...
Side 14
... look . A green mound , a pauper's grave of one who started well in life , equipped with every chance of success . How soon he fell out of the race into aimless , shiftless , grinding poverty . " His own fault , " you say . Is it wholly ...
... look . A green mound , a pauper's grave of one who started well in life , equipped with every chance of success . How soon he fell out of the race into aimless , shiftless , grinding poverty . " His own fault , " you say . Is it wholly ...
Side 24
... look at the rights of others and our duties to them . Do not let your conscience sleep , do not lull it to sleep , do not try and tamper with it by letting inclination plead before it with subtlety . Let us keep our conscience ...
... look at the rights of others and our duties to them . Do not let your conscience sleep , do not lull it to sleep , do not try and tamper with it by letting inclination plead before it with subtlety . Let us keep our conscience ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Abraham Lincoln ambition aristocracy of character AUSTIN DOBSON believe better blazon brave brother's keeper choose your friend Christ Christ's teaching comes command conscience courage deed deep devotion discipline duty Easter Sunday England evil face fail faithful feel fighting follow forget friendship future Generosity gift give Givenchy gladness glory God's greatest Gresham's School harm heart honour hope to win idea ideals immortality influence keep King King of Kings last full measure listen lives look loyal loyalty Lucknow mean morning mother nation ness never nobler obedience obey Old Boys opportunity passions Pilate pity pride proud public school purity realize remember responsibility Rolland sacrifice selfishness Seven Deadly Sins silence soul speak spirit splendid stand strength strive strong sure sympathy tell things thought to-day true trust truth unselfishness words worthy wrong yourselves
Populære passager
Side 73 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Side 59 - A faithful friend is a strong defence ; and he that hath found such an one, hath found a treasure.
Side 51 - And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal, the rich dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust-flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy!
Side 89 - This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Side 110 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Side 89 - Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart and in limb, Strong with the strength of the race to command, to obey, to endure...
Side 59 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Side 27 - Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given ; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
Side 6 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, „. x Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Side 50 - He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.