Books author - "John Henry Newman"
nce in a good sense or a bad. We interpret it by our antecedent impressions.The very same sentiments, according as our jealousy is or is not awake, or our aversion stimulated, are tokens of truth or of dissimulation and pretence. There is a story of a sane person being by mistake shut up in the wards of a Lunatic Asylum, and that, when he pleaded his cause to some strangers visiting the establishment, the only remark he elicited in answer was, "How naturally he talks! you would think he
Description Verses on Various Occasions is a collection of poems written by John Henry Newman between 1818 and 1865. This period of Newmanβs ecclesiastical career saw his ordination as an Anglican priest in 1825, his involvement in the High Church βOxford Movementβ in the 1830s, his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, and his founding of the Birmingham Oratory, a Catholic religious community, in 1849. The poems in this collection span a range of Christian subjects, including piety,
nce in a good sense or a bad. We interpret it by our antecedent impressions.The very same sentiments, according as our jealousy is or is not awake, or our aversion stimulated, are tokens of truth or of dissimulation and pretence. There is a story of a sane person being by mistake shut up in the wards of a Lunatic Asylum, and that, when he pleaded his cause to some strangers visiting the establishment, the only remark he elicited in answer was, "How naturally he talks! you would think he
Description Verses on Various Occasions is a collection of poems written by John Henry Newman between 1818 and 1865. This period of Newmanβs ecclesiastical career saw his ordination as an Anglican priest in 1825, his involvement in the High Church βOxford Movementβ in the 1830s, his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, and his founding of the Birmingham Oratory, a Catholic religious community, in 1849. The poems in this collection span a range of Christian subjects, including piety,