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" I never wanted articles on religious subjects half so much as articles on common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone."— DR. "
The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 1
1799 - 192 pages
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Infidelity: Its Aspects, Causes, and Agencies ... With a Preface-essay by ...

Thomas Pearson - Skepticism - 1863 - 344 pages
...volume, taken a step in the right direction — a scheme which has Arnold's language for its motto, " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone." It has too much been forgotten that the people will have entertaining literature. It is by entertaining...
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Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude ..., Volume 2

Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1864 - 352 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,...
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The Methodist quarterly, Volume 1

1867 - 416 pages
...Diffusing Useful Knowledge. The particular aim he had is best defined by his sage remark, so often quoted, "I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written with a decidedly religious tone." In this endeavour to penetrate all character and work with the spirit of a living...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 45

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...and supply the ever-increasing demands of our households. Taking for its motto Dr. Arnold's words, ' I never wanted articles on ' religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written ' with a decidedly religious tone,' it endeavours by an agreeable miscellany of theology, essay, history, poetry, and...
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The Life of Thomas Arnold

Emma Jane Worboise - 1870 - 426 pages
...that remark of his, so often quoted, and adopted by one monthly serial at least as its motto : — " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written with a decidedly religious tone." These words were called forth by an article on Mirabeau, in the Penny Magazine of...
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Passages from the Life of Charles Knight

Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 508 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,...
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Passages from the Life of Charles Knight

Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 516 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are jar better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,...
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Half-length Portraits

Gibson Craig - Biography - 1879 - 320 pages
...article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could have done it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 164

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 602 pages
...like to furnish to the working-men of England, as ' Cobbett-like in style but Christian in spirit. ... I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone.' And his enthusiasm in favour of directing these new and hopeful agencies for mental improvement...
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A Memoir of Roger Ascham

Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 272 pages
...ends. Cheap, safe reading for the masses was a great desire with him. He once wrote to a friend, " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone." Stanley's life was greatly influenced by Arnold ; and nobly has he, at least, recognized a debt...
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