The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head-master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, Volume 1 |
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Page 164 - appointed to the chaplaincy, waiving, of course, altogether the salary attached to the office. Whoever is chaplain, I must ever feel myself, as Head-master, the real and proper religious instructor of the boys. No one else can feel the same interest in them, and no one else (I am not speaking of myself personally,
Page 30 - pleasure, and relaxation so real a refreshment to him. And in his solemn and emphatic expressions on subjects expressly religious; in his manner of awful reverence when speaking of God or of the Scriptures; in his power of realizing the operation of something more than human, whether in his abhorrence of evil, or in his admiration of
Page 181 - sort of moral transparency;" in the fixedness of his purpose, and " the searchingness of his practical insight into boys," by a consciousness, almost amounting to solemnity, that " when his eye was upon you, he looked into your inmost heart;" that there was something in his very tone and outward aspect, before which any thing low, or false, or cruel,
Page 430 - though most imperfectly, to lead them to Christ in true and devoted faith; and when I hold all the scholarship that ever man had, to be infinitely worthless in comparison with even a very humble degree of spiritual advancement. And I think that I have seen my work in some instances
Page 253 - more detestable for the very guise of the " Archangel ruined," which has made it so seductive to the most generous spirits—but to me so hateful, because it is in direct opposition to the impartial justice of the Gospel, and its comprehensive feeling of equal brotherhood, and because it so fostered a sense of honour rather than a sense of duty.
Page 34 - to have regarded it as his work for life. \" I have always thought," he writes in 1823, " with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aut Caesar aut nullus, and as it is pretty well settled for me that I shall not be Caesar, I am quite content
Page 140 - the pleased look and the cheerful " Thank you," which followed upon a successful answer or translation ; the fall of his countenance with its deepening severity, the stern elevation of the eyebrows, the sudden " Sit down" which followed upon the reverse ; the courtesy and almost deference to the boys, as to his equals in society, so long as there was
Page 433 - Chronicles xi. 20, and xiii. 2, there is a decided difference in the parentage of Abijah's mother, which is curious on any supposition. Do you agree with Schleiermacher in denying Paul to be the author of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus ? I own it seems to me
Page 248 - is sure to fall far enough short in reality. There has been no flogging yet, (and I hope that there will be none,) and surprisingly few irregularities. I chastise, at first, by very gentle impositions, which are raised for a repetition of offences—flogging will be only my ratio ultima—and talking I shall try to the utmost. I
Page 129 - sticks, or the greater or less blackness of a boy's bruises, for the amusement of all the readers of the newspapers ; nor do I care in the slightest degree about the attacks, if the masters themselves treat them with indifference. If they appear to mind them, or to fear their effect on the