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.1845 Excerpt: ... Boulogne, July 23, 1841. 7. Our tour is ended, and I grieve to say that it has left on my mind a more unfavourable impression of France than I have been wont to feel. I do not doubt the great mass of good which must exist, but the active elements, those, at least, which are on the surface, seem to be working for evil. The virulence of the newspapers against England is, I think, a very bad omen, and the worship which the people seem to pay to Napoleon's memory is also deeply to be regretted. But it is the misfortune of France that her " past" cannot be loved or respected; her future and her present cannot be wedded to it; yet how can the present yield fruit, or the future have promise, except their roots be fixed in the past 1 The evil is infinite, but the blame rests with those who made the past a dead thing, out of which no healthful life could be produced... Much as I like coming abroad, I am never for an in stant tempted to live abroad; not even in Germany, where assuredly I would settle, if I were obliged to quit England. But not the strongest Tory or Conservative values our Church or Law more than I do, or would find life less liveable without them. Indeed it is very hard to me to think that those can value either who can see their defects with indifference; or that those can value them worthily, that is, can appreciate their idea, who do not see wherein they fall short of their idea. And now 1 close this Journal for the present, praying that God may bless us, and keep us in worldly good or evil in Himself and in His Son. Amen. THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF DR. ARNOLD'S PUBLISHED WORKS. THEOLOGICAL WORKS. I. Five volumes of Sermons:--1st. Sermons preached at Laleham, 1829. 2nd. Sermons preached in the School Chapel at Rugby. With five Sermons on the Socia...

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<p>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. 1889 Excerpt: ...but wielded with such 'matchless effect and to such noble purposes, has been mute 'ever since his last conversation in the prison; for even his 'great successor Plato was a writer and lecturer, not a colloquial 'dialectician. No man has ever been found strong enough 'to bend his bow; much less, sure enough to use it as he did. 'His life remains as the only evidence, but a very satisfactory 'evidence, how much can be done by this sort of intelligent 'interrogation; how powerful is the interest which it can be 'made to inspire; how energetic the stimulus which it can 'apply in awakening dormant reason and generating new mental 'power.'1 True it is that the re-appearance of such a man in subsequent stages of society is all but impossible. The modern privacy of domestic life, the established order of social intercourse, thz communication through books rather than through speech, render that perpetual dialogue wholly impracticable, which in the open out-of-door life of Greece needed only courage 'Grote, viii. p. 614. and resolution to be adequately sustained. But though the remedy is impossible, the need for 1t cannot be said to have diminished: --'However little that instrument may have been applied 'since the death of its inventor, the necessity and use of it 'neither have disappeared, nor ever can disappear. There are 'few men whose minds are not more or less in that state of 'sham knowledge against which Socrates made war: there is 'no one whose notions have not been first got together by 'spontaneous, unexamined, unconscious, uncertified association, 'resting upon forgotten particulars, blending together disparities 'or inconsistencies, and leaving in his mind old and familiar 'phrases, and oracular propositions, of which he has never 'rendered to himself ac..</p>

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