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Page 292 - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page viii - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 379 - Though the senses were thus deadened, not so the mind ; its activity seemed to be invigorated in a ratio which defies all description, for thought rose above thought with a rapidity of succession that is not only indescribable, but probably inconceivable by any one who has not himself been in a similar situation.
Page 148 - But how little it matters whether they are many or few, so long as there is the faithfulness which makes the most of the few, and can do no more with the many.
Page 380 - ... stated, but the picture filled up with every minute and collateral feature : in short, the whole period of my existence seemed to be placed before me in a kind of panoramic review ; and each act of it seemed to be accompanied by a consciousness of right or wrong, or by some reflection on its cause or its consequences. Indeed, many trifling events which had been long forgotten then crowded into my imagination, and with the character of recent familiarity.
Page 380 - ... trifling events which had been long forgotten then crowded into my imagination, and with the character of recent familiarity. May not all this be some indication of the almost infinite power of memory with which we may awaken in another world, and...
Page 24 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 58 - He was certainly not orthodox after the Record standard, but might very well be so after another. For our Church has the advantage — such I deem it — of more than one type of orthodoxy : that of the High Church, grounded on one aspect of its formularies ; that of the Low Church, grounded on another aspect ; and that of the Broad Church, striving to take in both, but in its own way. Each has a right to a standing-place, none to exclusive possession of the field. Of course this is very unsatisfactory...
Page 335 - I suppose you cannot have read Middlemarch, as you say nothing about it. It stands quite alone. As one only just moistens one's lips with an exquisite liqueur to keep the taste as long as possible in one's mouth, I never read more than a single chapter of Middlemarch...
Page 288 - That it is the judgment of this House that no person who denies the Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ ought to be invited to join either Company to which is committed the revision of the Authorised Version of Holy Scripture ; and that it is further the judgment of this House that any such person now on either Company should cease to act therewith.