Never Forgotten: Or, The Home of the Lost ChildBurns, Oates&Company, 1871 - 292 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12 - Many of the Meditations are of great beauty. . . .They form, in fact, excellent little sermons, and we have no doubt will be largely used as such.
الصفحة 15 - This excellent work has a twofold value, being both a biography and a volume of meditations. It contains an elaborate analysis of the wants, dangers, trials, and aspirations of the inner man, and supplies to the thoughtful and devout reader the most valuable instructions for the attainment of heavenly wisdom, grace, and strength.'— Catholic Times. 'A treatise of the very highest value.'— Month.
الصفحة 7 - The more we have of such works as 'The Hidden Life of Jesus,' the better." — Westminster Gazette. " A book of searching power." — Church Review. "We have often regretted that this writer's works are not better known.
الصفحة 10 - We know not where an improvement could be suggested, and therefore we see not why anything should have been substituted for them. . . . Why should not their use be restored ? Why should they not become the standard devotions of all Catholics, whether alone or in their families ? .Why may we not hope to have them more solemnly performed — chanted even every day in all religious communities ; or, where there is a sufficient number of persons, even in family chapels ? " — Cardinal Wiseman. "These...
الصفحة 16 - This charming tale may be classed among such instructive as well as entertaining works as ' Fabiola ' and ' Callista.* It adds another laurel to the brow of the fair Countess." — Weekly Register. " Instructive and interesting book.
الصفحة 14 - Him,' is one of the most useful and comforting that we have read for a long time. We earnestly commend this little book to all troubled souls, feeling sure that they will find in it abundant cause for joy and consolation.
الصفحة 9 - The writer of the present volume has had the advantage of very copious materials in the French works on which his own work is founded ; and Mr. Thompson has discharged his office as editor with his usual diligence and accuracy.
الصفحة 9 - There has been no adequate biography of St. Stanislas. In rectifying this want Mr. Thompson has earned a title to the gratitude of Englishspeaking Catholics. The engaging Saint of Poland will now be better known among us, and we need not fear that, better known, he will not be better loved.'— Weekly Register.
الصفحة 14 - The compilers deserve great praise for the manner in which they have performed their task. We commend this little volume as well and carefully printed, and as furnishing its readers, moreBURNS, OATES, & CO., 17, PORTMAN STREET, W. over, with a great amount of useful information in the tables inserted at the end.
الصفحة 8 - The book before us contains numberless traces of a thoughtful and tender devotion to the Saint. It shows a loving penetration into his spirit, and an appreciation of the secret motives of his action, which can only be the result of a deeply affectionate study of his life and character.