Our Sunday fireside; or, Meditations for children

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Burns and Oates, 1878 - 320 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 283 - 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.
الصفحة 65 - You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
الصفحة 282 - History of England, for Family Use and the Upper Classes of Schools. By the Author of ' Christian Schools and Scholars.
الصفحة 277 - Catholic Opinion. * Indicates conscientious and painstaking research, and will be indispensable to any student who would examine the question on which it treats.' — Bookseller. ' Superior, both in literary method, tone, and mode of reasoning, to the usual controversial books on this subject.
الصفحة 280 - Louise Lateau of Bois d'Haine: her Life, her Ecstasies, and her Stigmata : a Medical Study. By Dr. F. LEFEBVRE, Professor of General Pathology and Therapeutics in the Catholic University of Louvain, &c. Translated from the French. Edited by Rev. J. SPENCER NORTHCOTE, DD Full and complete edition. 3^. bd. 'The name of Dr. Lefebvre is sufficient guarantee of the importance of any work coming from his pen. The reader will find much valuable information.' — Tablet. ' The whole case thoroughly entered...
الصفحة 280 - To all who read it the book will suggest thoughts for which they will be the better, while its graceful and affecting, because simple, pictures of home and family life will excite emotions of which none need be ashamed.
الصفحة 283 - We have indeed to thank Mr. Wood for this excellent little book.' — Catholic Opinion, ' Very seldom have we read a book devoted entirely to the metropolis with such pleasure.'- -Liverpool Catholic Times. * A very pleasing and readable book.
الصفحة 276 - ... valuable, not only to religious, for whom they were originally intended, but to all those who desire to consecrate their daily life by regularly express and systematic meditation ; while Father Porter's excellent little Preface contains many valuable hints on the method of meditation.
الصفحة 273 - Weekly Register. * We have had many volumes from his Grace's pen of this kind, but perhaps none more practical or more searching than the volume before us. These discourses are the clearest and simplest exposition of the theology of the subjects they treat of that could be desired. The intellect is addressed as well as the conscience. Both are strengthened and satisfied.* — Tablet.
الصفحة 283 - W. ing is to be found in the history of Marie Eustelle Harpain, the sempstress of Saint-Pallais. 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.

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