This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... little recreation had on the Continent or elsewhere, you must begin to grapple with the great work of life. The preliminary stages have lasted longer with you than with most others, for I was anxious that you should have the full benefit of all that the University could do for you. The physical contests have had their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... little recreation had on the Continent or elsewhere, you must begin to grapple with the great work of life. The preliminary stages have lasted longer with you than with most others, for I was anxious that you should have the full benefit of all that the University could do for you. The physical contests have had their place; the intellectual, too, have had their chance; the spiritual must now be entered upon. Read S. Paul's allusions to the Isthmian games, and try to realize with him the words, 'Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.' Set this before you steadily for the rest of life. Hitherto you have been training the lower faculties of the man--the flesh--the intellect. The higher must now have the chief share of time and thought. It is with the moral and spiritual nature that man can best serve God and his fellow-men. Graces will do more than gifts for the lifting up of ourselves and others nearer unto God. Now is the time when mere study has ceased to have paramount claims upon you, that the great objects for which man lives, or ought to live, should be pondered, and resolutions formed of giving yourself up wholly to God and His Service. At twenty-three the character should be formed, the mind sobered. We hope to get back in November, and then comes this unhappy trial, the commencement probably of the greatest struggle that I have ever been engaged in. I fully expect to be in open collision, before it is done, with these Civil Courts, which will, if not curbed, destroy the Church." From Swellendam the Bishop wrote again (October 26th, 1863) to his son: --" I wish myself to hold the Faith as the Church of England holds and maintains it, having received it from the Catholic and undivided Church, and I should rejo...
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. 2-volume set. Green cloth, no dj's. Vg condition. NOT ex-library. Moderate foxing to text-block edges, not affecting interiors; contents clean, bindings firm, small bend to corner of half-dozen early pgs of Volume 1. Spine ends lightly bumped w/ mild scuffing to spine cloth, green cloth-covered boards showing some pale fading to a brownish-green shade. 536 & 655 pp., tissue-protected frontispieces, fold-out map. 16-pg. publisher's catalogue in rear of Volume 1. Work attributed to Mrs. Henrietta Louisa Farrer Lear.
