Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D. D. Oxon. and Cam., Sometime Bishop of London ...Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 |
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Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D. D., Oxon and Cam., Sometime Bishop ... Louise Creighton Visualização integral - 1905 |
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D.D., Oxon and Cam ..., Volume 1 Louise Creighton Visualização integral - 1906 |
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D.D., Oxon and Cam ..., Volume 1 Louise Creighton Visualização integral - 1906 |
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Página 73 - His ordination was much commented on. He said to me in the following year that it was the habit in Oxford to assume that a man who took Orders must be either a fool or a knave, and that as people could not call him a fool, they had
Página 399 - wandering career seems to have come to an end. My peace of mind is gone : my books will be shut up : my mind will go to seed : I shall utter nothing but platitudes for the rest of my life, and everybody will write letters in the newspapers about my iniquities.
Página 12 - And now, if you ask me how you are to do all this, I am sure you will all feel where the best help is to be found; also you will find a frequent attendance at the Holy Communion a very great assistance to you indeed.
Página 367 - I am rather perplexed about a matter in which it seems to me that the humour of the situation is great. I asked Lord Acton to review my Popes, and he graciously consented. Now he sends me a review which reads to me like the utterances of a man who is in a furious passion, but is incapable of clear expression. He differs toto
Página 277 - made clear his single-minded pursuit of truth. ' One point cannot be too clearly stated, though it is almost superfluous to state it, that science knows no difference of methods, and that Ecclesiastical History must be pursued in exactly the same way, and with exactly the same spirit, as any other branch of history. The aim of the investigators is simply the discovery of truth.
Página 277 - progress is founded on historical experience of the evolution of human affairs. Its object is to understand the past as a whole, to note in every age the thing that was accomplished, the ideas which clothed themselves with power. It tries to estimate them in reference to the times in which they occurred. It knows no special sympathies, for it sees everywhere the working of
Página 374 - now begin to understand him. He demands that history should be primarily a branch of the moral sciences, and should aim at proving the immutable righteousness of the ideas of modern Liberalism—tolerance and the supremacy of conscience. He has used me as a peg to indicate that belief. He is revising his original remarks, but I do not expect that much clearness will ensue, though it will be
Página 100 - ever read, simply for the reason that it insists upon the analysis of self for no sufficient object. It does not do to have the human soul upon the dissecting board always, or even often.' ' Marlborough College : June 21, 1871. ' You ask me about reading " Malgre tout.
Página 93 - utilitarian morals pure and simple would always tend to degenerate unless perpetual reference were kept up to their main principle, and it is because that principle is so abstract that the process of rectification is difficult to carry on at the same time as action. It