Sunday, September 15, 2013

An effective charade (δράμα)

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"There was a money-changer in a city, one of whose inhabitants came bringing him a precious stone worth five hundred pieces of gold.  ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Comber on the use of forms

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"we can pray by this Form with as much Zeal and more Knowledge, with as much Spirit and more Truth, than by any other kind of Prayer....

Johnson on the use of forms

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"let me farther assure you, that now after near forty years use of our excellent method of worship, . . . it is so far from growing ted...

"the habitat of natural gifts is the natural man."

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"beware of showing God's grace and its work at such disadvantage as to make the few whom it has thoroughly influenced compete in in...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

"the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end"

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"If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society.  Its art is the...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

"you must be above your knowledge, not under it, or it will oppress you; and the more you have of it, the greater will be the load."

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     John Henry Newman,  The idea of a university defined and illustrated,  Discourse VI.7 (ed. I. T. Ker (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1976), ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

"Here is Russia and here is France, and we are in the middle; that is my map of Africa."

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"'Your map of Africa is all very fine,' Bismarck famously told the traveller and writer Eugen Wolf, 'but my map of Africa l...