The Life of William Ewart Gladstone: 1809-1859Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1903 |
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Página 84 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 67 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Página 48 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, io which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 201 - But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious : long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me : give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Página 370 - When we are asking for the maintenance of the rights which belong to our fellow-subjects resident in Greece...
Página 370 - I find, on the contrary, a great and noble monument of human wisdom, founded on the combined dictates of reason and experience, a precious inheritance bequeathed to us by the generations that have gone before us, and a firm foundation on which we must take care to build whatever it may be our part to add to their acquisitions, if, indeed, we wish to maintain and to consolidate the brotherhood of nations and to promote the peace and welfare of the world.
Página 116 - If by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation — that public men can only support themselves in public estimation by adopting every popular impression of the day...
Página 509 - There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement, about war, which, notwithstanding the miseries it entails, invests it with charms in the eyes of the community, and tends to blind men to those evils to a fearful and dangerous degree. The necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditure which it entails is a salutary and wholesome check, making them feel what they are about, and making them measure the cost of the benefit upon which they may calculate.
Página 201 - For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. 19 Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way ; 20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Página 26 - ... the prejudices, perhaps, of Eton and Oxford), that we owe it to our system of public schools and universities. From these institutions is derived (in the language of the prayer of our collegiate churches) " a due supply of men fitted to serve their country both in church and state.