In Slums and Society: Reminiscences of Old FriendsT. Fisher Unwin, 1916 - 302 pages |
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Page 292 - GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright...
Page 291 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page 292 - O let the earth bless the Lord : yea, let it praise him, and magnify him for ever.
Page 159 - ... him for the governor: then doth he cast out Satan, " overcome him, take from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divide his spoils," Luke xi. 22, and then doth he establish a firm and lasting peace. If therefore thou art yet in that first peace, never think it will endure. Can thy soul have lasting peace, in enmity with Christ? Can he have peace, against whom God proclaims war? I wish thee no greater good than that God break in...
Page 278 - Mercy) ask some slender Arms for their Hospital They harbour all kinds of diseases, and have no respect for religion.
Page 46 - Do you realize," he would say, " that all our social system is arranged on the tacit assumption that there is a leisured class in every locality who will see that the laws are carried out and generally keep the social life going?
Page 17 - Mearns' pamphlet directed the "attention of the West End to the East". Adderley recounted how "the universities were aroused and, whereas up to the year 1883 you could count on your fingers the names of men, like Edward Denison, who had studied the social question on the spot and lived among the people", after that date it became "the commonest thing in the world" for ladies and gentlemen to go down into the East End.
Page 168 - came out just when slumming was the fashion among religious people of the upper classes, and Socialism of a very mild type was beginning to be indulged in even by duchesses. It was also rather an " unsectarian " kind of book, and appealed to the Nonconformists, though written by a supposed ritualist.
Page 114 - mid fallen leaves Dirty and brown, I go and gaily watch Socker or Rugby match ; Country ? It ain'ta patch On London Town. Give me the sparkling Strand, Looking by night so grand, Give me a Sousa's band, In shine or rain ; Lunch at the ABC Steamboats and LCC Country folk envy me, Me and my Jane. You grope in some dark lane, Trusting to Charles' Wain, Gas makes our way quite plain In darkest night.
Page 276 - Canon Adderley cautions young clergymen against the danger of making slips in extempore prayers. He mentions these as examples of unintentional blunders: "Parodoxical as it may appear to Thee, O Lord;" " For this, O Lord, is the correct reading of the passage;" "O Almighty God, very wonderful are the proofs of Thine existence;" "If there be a spark of holiness here, O Lord, water that spark!