Memoir of John Lang Bickersteth [by C.B. Wheeler].Religious Tract Society [18]̲̲., 1799 - 103 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 9
עמוד 10
... happy as I am ? remem- ber your Creator now . Follow Christ ; pray for the promised Holy Spirit . Ever stand in awe of sin , and in the good and right way be bold as a lion ; make much of the Bible , and be much in prayer , 10 PREFACE .
... happy as I am ? remem- ber your Creator now . Follow Christ ; pray for the promised Holy Spirit . Ever stand in awe of sin , and in the good and right way be bold as a lion ; make much of the Bible , and be much in prayer , 10 PREFACE .
עמוד 39
... happy . * 66 " Aug. 18. Read Campbell's Chan- cellors of England . ' " On the 28th of August began John's short , but brilliant career at Rugby . The day after his arrival the diary is thus continued : - " Aug. 29. Got up early ; read ...
... happy . * 66 " Aug. 18. Read Campbell's Chan- cellors of England . ' " On the 28th of August began John's short , but brilliant career at Rugby . The day after his arrival the diary is thus continued : - " Aug. 29. Got up early ; read ...
עמוד 47
... happy . I have much more to tell you , when I can do it vivá voce . I have by God's help kept to my principles , and still hope to do so , whatever I may suffer . " In a second letter , written the same day , he says : - " MY DEAR ...
... happy . I have much more to tell you , when I can do it vivá voce . I have by God's help kept to my principles , and still hope to do so , whatever I may suffer . " In a second letter , written the same day , he says : - " MY DEAR ...
עמוד 50
... happy . Above all , dear Johnny , try and choose good com- panions , and never forget to pray God to keep you from all that is sinful , and all that is dishonourable . I look forward with much hope and confidence to your doing honour to ...
... happy . Above all , dear Johnny , try and choose good com- panions , and never forget to pray God to keep you from all that is sinful , and all that is dishonourable . I look forward with much hope and confidence to your doing honour to ...
עמוד 58
... happy to say that , principally through Mr. M's kindness , I am now placed in the lower fifth form , which is the highest place I could have expected . Another thing is , that [ one of his schoolfel- lows ] is beginning to show himself ...
... happy to say that , principally through Mr. M's kindness , I am now placed in the lower fifth form , which is the highest place I could have expected . Another thing is , that [ one of his schoolfel- lows ] is beginning to show himself ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Memoir of John Lang Bickersteth [By C.B. Wheeler] <span dir=ltr>Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
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
קטעים בולטים
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.