Bishop Heber, Poet and Chief Missionary to the East: Second Lord Bishop of Calcutta, 1783-1826J. Murray, 1895 - 370 pages |
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... Hodnet , the Rev. Richard Hugh Cholmondeley , for most courteous assistance . I grate- fully acknowledge the help of the present Rector of Malpas , the Rev. and the Hon . W. Trevor Kenyon , especially in per- mitting me to publish , for ...
... Hodnet , the Rev. Richard Hugh Cholmondeley , for most courteous assistance . I grate- fully acknowledge the help of the present Rector of Malpas , the Rev. and the Hon . W. Trevor Kenyon , especially in per- mitting me to publish , for ...
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... Hodnet . CHAPTER IV HODNET PARISH AND HODNET FRIENDS 1807-1823 PAGE 28 29 30 33 36 39 42 43 44 45 47 48 49 Hodnet parish and Hawkstone Park 51 Introduced to Wilberforce- " The Slave Trade is no more 52 Influence of the Clapham Sect 53 ...
... Hodnet . CHAPTER IV HODNET PARISH AND HODNET FRIENDS 1807-1823 PAGE 28 29 30 33 36 39 42 43 44 45 47 48 49 Hodnet parish and Hawkstone Park 51 Introduced to Wilberforce- " The Slave Trade is no more 52 Influence of the Clapham Sect 53 ...
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... Hodnet 78 CHAPTER V POET AND CRITIC 1810-1822 Heber constrained to write hymns for his congregation His ideal of hymnody Missionary collection in every church in England Heber writes " From Greenland's icy mountains " 2858 79 80 81 ...
... Hodnet 78 CHAPTER V POET AND CRITIC 1810-1822 Heber constrained to write hymns for his congregation His ideal of hymnody Missionary collection in every church in England Heber writes " From Greenland's icy mountains " 2858 79 80 81 ...
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... Hodnet and Malpas 127 128 • Maria Leycester's searchings of heart Consecration in Lambeth Palace 129 • 133 Heber declares himself chief missionary in the East . 135 CHAPTER VII INDIA AND THE VOYAGE IN 1823 Lord Amherst Governor ...
... Hodnet and Malpas 127 128 • Maria Leycester's searchings of heart Consecration in Lambeth Palace 129 • 133 Heber declares himself chief missionary in the East . 135 CHAPTER VII INDIA AND THE VOYAGE IN 1823 Lord Amherst Governor ...
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... 331 • 332 335 337 338 340 342 · 343 344 346 348 349 Southey's verses on Reginald Heber 350 CHAPTER XIV BIBLIOGRAPHY 352 APPENDIX THE HEBER FAMILY 357 INDEX 361 ILLUSTRATIONS Bishop Heber at Forty Heber's Rectory , Hodnet On CONTENTS XV.
... 331 • 332 335 337 338 340 342 · 343 344 346 348 349 Southey's verses on Reginald Heber 350 CHAPTER XIV BIBLIOGRAPHY 352 APPENDIX THE HEBER FAMILY 357 INDEX 361 ILLUSTRATIONS Bishop Heber at Forty Heber's Rectory , Hodnet On CONTENTS XV.
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Page 334 - God, who hast given us grace at this time, with one accord, to make our common supplications unto thee ; and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests...
Page 351 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 335 - Thou dost conduct Thy people Through torrents of temptation ; Nor will we fear, while Thou art near, The fire of tribulation. The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By Thee we shall break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 2 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 18 - Heber was in every mouth; his society was courted by young and old; he lived in an atmosphere of favour, admiration, and regard, from which I have never known any one but himself who would not have derived, and for life, an unsalutary influence.
Page 254 - Hindoo banker, and entrusted by him to the management of the Church Missionary Society, in which, besides a grammatical knowledge of the Hindoostanee language, as well as Persian and Arabic, the senior boys could pass a good examination in English grammar, in Hume's History of England, Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, the use of the globes, and the principal facts and moral precepts of the Gospel, most of them writing beautifully in the Persian, and very tolerably in the English character, and excelling...
Page 329 - Schwartz and his fifty years' labour among the Heathen, the extraordinary influence and popularity which he acquired, both with Mussulmans, Hindoos, and contending European governments, I need give you no account, except that my idea of him has been raised since I came into the south of India. I used to suspect that, with many admirable qualities, there was too great a mixture of intrigue in his character, that he was too much of a political prophet, and that the veneration which the heathen paid,...
Page 350 - Large, England, is the debt Thou owest to Heathendom ; To India most of all, where Providence, Giving thee thy dominion there in trust, Upholds its baseless strength.
Page 332 - Will it be believed, that while the Raja kept his dominions, Christians were eligible to all the different offices of state, while now, there is an order of Government against their being admitted to any employment 1 ! Surely we are in matters of religion the most lukewarm and cowardly people on the face of the earth.
Page 196 - Mid Nature's embers, parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate of death ! Come on ! Yet pause! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough...