The Life of Richard Lord Westbury: Formerly Lord High Chancellor, with Selections from His Correspondence, Volume 2

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R. Bentley and son, 1888
 

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Page 112 - He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Sound him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 84 - I am happy to tell your Lordships that what is called a synodical judgment is a well lubricated set of words, a sentence so oily and saponaceous that no one can grasp it.
Page 291 - Existence may be borne, and the deep root Of life and sufferance make its firm abode In bare and desolated bosoms : mute The camel labours with the heaviest load, And the wolf dies in silence...
Page 183 - He that of such a height hath built his mind, And reared the dwelling of his thoughts so strong As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame Of his resolved powers, nor all the wind Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong His settled peace, or to disturb the same, What a fair seat hath he, from whence he may The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey.
Page 107 - ... charge and admonish him, that he do not at any time reveal and make known to any person whatsoever any crime or offence so committed to his trust and secrecy...
Page 144 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 107 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special Confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty mutter. After which Confession^ the Priest shall absolve him (if he humbly and heartily desire it) after this sort.
Page 183 - And rear'd the dwelling of his thoughts so strong, As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame Of his resolved powers ; nor all the wind Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong His settled peace, or to disturb the same, What a fair seat hath he, from whence he may The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey...
Page 77 - It is obvious that there may be matters of doctrine on which the Church has not given any definite rule or standard of faith or opinion ; there may be matters of religious belief on which the requisition of the Church may be less than Scripture may seem to warrant...
Page 113 - And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others

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