Arnold of Rugby: His School Life and Contributions to EducationJoseph John Findlay |
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... appeared penitent and made professions of amendment , you were clearly right to give him a longer trial . If he be sincere , however unsteady and backsliding , he will not hurt the principles of your other pupils ; for he will not glory ...
... appeared penitent and made professions of amendment , you were clearly right to give him a longer trial . If he be sincere , however unsteady and backsliding , he will not hurt the principles of your other pupils ; for he will not glory ...
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... appeared at times to endanger its existence . 66 I hope to be allowed before I die , to accomplish something on Education , and also with regard to the Church , " he writes in 1826 ; " the last indeed even more than the other , were not ...
... appeared at times to endanger its existence . 66 I hope to be allowed before I die , to accomplish something on Education , and also with regard to the Church , " he writes in 1826 ; " the last indeed even more than the other , were not ...
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... appearance , but also in its style and substance , the best introduction to all his later works ; the very absence of any application to particular classes or states of opinion , such as gives more interest to his subsequent sermons ...
... appearance , but also in its style and substance , the best introduction to all his later works ; the very absence of any application to particular classes or states of opinion , such as gives more interest to his subsequent sermons ...
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... appearance , had heard his name before . His testimonials were few , in number , and most of them couched in general language , but all speaking strongly of his qualifications . Amongst them was a letter from Dr Hawkins , now Provost of ...
... appearance , had heard his name before . His testimonials were few , in number , and most of them couched in general language , but all speaking strongly of his qualifications . Amongst them was a letter from Dr Hawkins , now Provost of ...
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... appeared , I think , to the majority of the Senate , that the terms of our Charter positively forbade that which in my judgment is indispensable ; and as there is a painfulness in even appearing to dispute the very law under which our ...
... appeared , I think , to the majority of the Senate , that the terms of our Charter positively forbade that which in my judgment is indispensable ; and as there is a painfulness in even appearing to dispute the very law under which our ...
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amongst Arnold believe better BISHOP OF HEREFORD boys called chapel character childhood Christ Christian Church Clifton College Register corporal punishment den of thieves Dr Arnold duty earnest encourage English evil exercise exist expression fagging faults fear feeling felt give God's Gospel Greek Head-master impression influence instruction intellectual interest Jehoiakim Jehonadab knowledge Laleham language Latin less lessons living look manhood manly master means mind moral nature never notion obedience opinion Oxford parents peculiar practice preached principles profanation public school punishment pupils regard relation religious respect Rugby RUGBY CHAPEL Rugby School scholars school discipline schoolmaster Scripture seems sense Serm sermons Sixth Form society speak spirit suppose sure sympathy taught teacher teaching temple things Thomas Arnold thought Thucydides tion translation true truth University volume whilst whole Winchester wisdom wish words write young
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Page 88 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 115 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 119 - Be it known unto you. therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 148 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding...
Page 154 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Page 166 - And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Page 52 - And few scenes can be recorded more characteristic of him than on one of these occasions, when, in consequence of a disturbance, he had been obliged to send away several boys, and when, in the midst of the general spirit of discontent which this excited, he stood in his place before the assembled school, and said, " It is not necessary that this should be a school of three hundred, or one hundred, or of fifty boys ; but it is necessary that it should be a school of Christian gentlemen.
Page 160 - Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 73 - They will remember the glance, with which he looked round in the few moments of silence before the lesson began, and which seemed to speak his sense of his own position and of theirs also, as the heads of a great school ; the attitude in which he stood, turning over the pages of Facciolati's Lexicon, or Pole's Synopsis, with his eye fixed upon the boy who was pausing to give an answer ; the well known changes of his voice and manner, so faithfully representing the feeling within ; the pleased look...
Page 60 - will never be what it might be, and what it ought to be." The remonstrances which he encountered, both on public and private grounds, were vehement and numerous. But on these terms alone had he taken his office : and he solemnly and repeatedly declared, that on no other terms could he hold it, or justify the existence of the public school system in a Christian country.