Memoir of John Lang Bickersteth [by C.B. Wheeler].Religious Tract Society [18]̲̲., 1799 - 103 עמודים |
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עמוד 15
... John's accompanied the party on their return to the Cape : he went out to study medicine , under the care of his eldest brother , John's father . The only incident of the voyage which seemed to have made a strong impres- sion on John's ...
... John's accompanied the party on their return to the Cape : he went out to study medicine , under the care of his eldest brother , John's father . The only incident of the voyage which seemed to have made a strong impres- sion on John's ...
עמוד 17
... foot slipped , the loaded gun which he was carrying went off , its contents entered his side , and he almost instantly expired on the spot . It was a bitter trial to John's father , to be B 2 17 JOHN LANG BICKERSTETH .
... foot slipped , the loaded gun which he was carrying went off , its contents entered his side , and he almost instantly expired on the spot . It was a bitter trial to John's father , to be B 2 17 JOHN LANG BICKERSTETH .
עמוד 18
Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler. was a bitter trial to John's father , to be obliged to send to England such heavy tidings respecting the young brother to whom he was warmly attached , and who had been committed to his care ; yet he who ...
Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler. was a bitter trial to John's father , to be obliged to send to England such heavy tidings respecting the young brother to whom he was warmly attached , and who had been committed to his care ; yet he who ...
עמוד 20
... final letter of arrangement , his father thus writes to John's grandfather , the Rev. J. Bickersteth , to whom , in con- junction with the Rev. R. Bickersteth , of Clapham , John's uncle , the little boy was to 20 MEMOIR OF.
... final letter of arrangement , his father thus writes to John's grandfather , the Rev. J. Bickersteth , to whom , in con- junction with the Rev. R. Bickersteth , of Clapham , John's uncle , the little boy was to 20 MEMOIR OF.
עמוד 21
Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler. Clapham , John's uncle , the little boy was to be committed on his arrival in Eng- land : - " With regard to the school at which he is to be placed , I have a leaning towards Rugby , particularly as you ...
Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler. Clapham , John's uncle , the little boy was to be committed on his arrival in Eng- land : - " With regard to the school at which he is to be placed , I have a leaning towards Rugby , particularly as you ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affectionate anxious April arrival blessing brief bright brilliant Cape Cape Town CHAPTER cheering Cicero cloth boards comfort dear boy dear John dear Johnny DEAREST JOHNNY death delirium diary proceeds diligence Divine Divine grace duty early earnest endeavours England Engravings eternal Euclid evil extra boards extracts faith give glad glory God's grace grandfather grandpapa half-bound half-past half-year happy heard heart heaven heavenly Holy honour hope humility ILFRACOMBE intel Jesus JOHN LANG BICKERSTETH John's father kind Leicestershire lesson letter Lizard lights looking Lord masters MEMOIR OF JOHN mind ness nobly occasion panions path peace piety pleasure pray prayer principles prize public school Read received RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY remember respect RUGBY SCHOOL Sapcote Rectory Scriptures Sept sermon Simon's Town soon sorrow spect spirit sure Tait teasing tell thee things tion trial uncle unto Valpy's Virgil walk whilst young youthful
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עמוד 41 - It is a most touching thing to me," he said once in the hearing of one of his former pupils, on the mention of some new comers, " to receive a new fellow from his father — when I think what an influence there is in this place for evil as well as for good. I do not know anything which affects me more.
עמוד 43 - ... and civilizations, we are apt, I imagine, to find it hard to realize. But here, in the nakedness of boy-nature, one is quite able to understand how there could not be found so many as even ten righteous in a whole city. And how to meet this evil I really do not know ; but to find it thus rife after I have been [so many] years fighting against it, is so sickening, that it is very hard not to throw up the cards in despair, and upset the table. But then the stars of nobleness, which I...
עמוד 41 - I have had some of the troubles of school-keeping; and one of those specimens of the evil of boy-nature, which makes me always unwilling to undergo the responsibility of advising any man to send his son to a public school. There has been a system of persecution carried on by the bad against the good, and then, when complaint was made to me, there came fresh persecution on that very account; and divers instances of boys joining in it out of pure cowardice, both physical and moral, when if left to...
עמוד 3 - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
עמוד 41 - ... instances of boys joining in it out of pure cowardice, both physical and moral, when if left to themselves they would have rather shunned it. And the exceedingly small number of boys, who can be relied on for active and steady good on these occasions, and the way in which the decent and...
עמוד 42 - ... relied on for active and steady good, on these occasions, and the way in which the decent and respectable of ordinary life, (Carlyle's ' Shams,') are sure on these occasions to swim with the stream, and take part with the evil, — makes me strongly feel exemplified what the Scripture says about ' the strait gate ' and the ' wide ' one, — a view of human nature which, when looking on human life in its full dress of decencies and civilizations, we are apt, I imagine, to find it hard to realize.
עמוד 43 - Scripture says about the strait gate and the wide one, — a view of human nature, which, when looking on human life in its full dress of decencies and civilizations, we are apt, I imagine, to find it hard to realize. But here, in the nakedness of boy-nature, one is quite able to understand how there could not be found so many as even ten righteous in a whole city.
עמוד 42 - ... shams") are sure on these occasions to swim with the stream, and take part with the evil, makes me strongly feel exemplified what the Scripture says about the strait gate and the wide one — a view of human nature which, when looking on human life in its full dress of decencies and civilizations, we are apt, I imagine, to find it hard to realize ; but here, in the nakedness of boy-nature, one is quite able to understand how there could not be found even ten righteous in a whole city. And how...
עמוד 12 - There is laid up for us a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give unto all them that love his appearing.