Instructing a Generation in Need of Wise Guidance
A historical figure laments a generation lacking wise and healthy teaching. The passage calls for a mature educator to provide moral framing, discipline, and constructive guidance to youth for better lives and civic responsibility.
Liddon's Lent Lectures Reviewed for Their Strength and Shortcomings
The piece praises Dr. Jaddons Liddon style and devotion but finds the arguments for absolute creed untenable. It notes the lectures press religious sentiment while distrusting ecclesiastical forms and warns clergy readers against adopting the method without balance.
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Dr. Liddon
Machiavelli
Jesus Christ
Liddon
Butler
Life and thoughts of Charles Buxton a cautious intellect
A portrait of Charles Buxton as a wealthy English gentleman whose life valued meditation over action. The piece notes his strict diary habit, disciplined self- reflection, and eclectic, sometimes cautious views, with quotes from his writings and observations on character, propriety, and leadership.
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Charles Buxton
Buxton
Charles
Church of England
Anwlia
Hawthorne
Lessing
Goethe
Coleridge
Artemus Ward
Artemus
Carlyle