Almond of Loretto: Being the Life and a Selection from the Letters of Hely Hutchinson Almond, M.A. Glasgow; M.A. Oxon; LL. D. Glasgow; Headmaster of Loretto School (1862-1903) |
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Almond athletics believe chapel chapter character Christian Church coat College cricket custom doubt DRUMRUINIE Edinburgh Edinburgh Academy English evil exercise Fettes College fish flannel football FRANK ADAMS friends G. G. COULTON give Glasgow golf habits happy Head Head's headmaster Herbert Spencer ideas important influence intellectual interest INVERAN less letter living Loch Inver look Loretto boys Loretto School Lorettonian master match mind moral MUSSELBURGH nature never NORTH ESK LODGE old boys once opinion Oxford parents perhaps physical play practice prefects principle public school pupils questions Raeburn Place rational reason reforms regard religion scholarships schoolmaster scientific Scotland Scottish seems sermon side spirit STRATHAN sure talk teaching tell temper thing thought tion Tristram ULLAPOOL University Vicegerent of Loretto W. G. Graces walk weather writes wrong
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Page 292 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more: And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 39 - Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call, But Coach! Coach! Coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
Page 103 - Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Page 39 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 234 - The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.
Page 235 - ... of improvement as there are individuals. The progressive principle, however, in either shape, whether as the love of liberty or of improvement, is antagonistic to the sway of Custom, involving at least emancipation from that yoke; and the contest between the two constitutes the chief interest of the history of mankind.
Page 354 - Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Page 221 - ... •whom Nature has endowed with strong passions and overflowing energies. Its mere existence and the practical lessons which it preaches are worth all the books that have been written on youthful purity. I can say for myself that, under the circumstances of the luxurious and self-indulgent habits in which boys are increasingly brought up at home, the constant panic lest they should suffer any pain, the absence of apprehension lest their moral and physical fibre should become feeble by disuse,...
Page 103 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Page 212 - Had Gulliver narrated of the Laputans that the men vied with each other in learning how best to rear the offspring of other creatures, and were careless of learning how best to rear their own offspring, he would have paralleled any of the other absurdities he ascribes to them.