Consecrated Culture: Memorials of Benjamin Alfred Gregory, M.A. Oxon |
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... hard were despatched with a celerity often inconvenient to his teacher . This easy ap- propriation of knowledge , and the loneliness of his lesson- taking , account for his statement : ' I had no interest in any learning , and scarcely ...
... hard were despatched with a celerity often inconvenient to his teacher . This easy ap- propriation of knowledge , and the loneliness of his lesson- taking , account for his statement : ' I had no interest in any learning , and scarcely ...
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... hard day's reading , he instinc- tively relaxed . He had managed somehow to stock his memory , like an old curiosity shop , with epigram , repartee , odd sayings , ' quips and cranks . ' He would pour forth an almost exhaustless stream ...
... hard day's reading , he instinc- tively relaxed . He had managed somehow to stock his memory , like an old curiosity shop , with epigram , repartee , odd sayings , ' quips and cranks . ' He would pour forth an almost exhaustless stream ...
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... . speech on Fenians . " ' 6th . - Read E. B. Browning's Poems . Finished 9th . Sunday morning . - Mr . Allen very good , in his usual plain style . God blessed me in the service . I feel I have been too cold and hard , and have to a.
... . speech on Fenians . " ' 6th . - Read E. B. Browning's Poems . Finished 9th . Sunday morning . - Mr . Allen very good , in his usual plain style . God blessed me in the service . I feel I have been too cold and hard , and have to a.
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... hard , and have to a certain extent , though , thank God , not entirely , left my first love . This I think mainly the result of my long delay in getting work . I shall begin as soon as I get back from the holidays , and go regularly to ...
... hard , and have to a certain extent , though , thank God , not entirely , left my first love . This I think mainly the result of my long delay in getting work . I shall begin as soon as I get back from the holidays , and go regularly to ...
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... hard theological reading , if only as a corrective to so much classical study . ' 11th . With Walker in library . He " thought of asking " me to go up to Oxford for a Christ Church studentship in March- £ 75 and rooms . Not a bad thing ...
... hard theological reading , if only as a corrective to so much classical study . ' 11th . With Walker in library . He " thought of asking " me to go up to Oxford for a Christ Church studentship in March- £ 75 and rooms . Not a bad thing ...
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Page 336 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Page 401 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 340 - And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
Page 331 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Page 367 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto -you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 343 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Page 180 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Page 336 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 348 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.
Page 21 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer ; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.