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This personage was a man of forty, with a tall lean figure, a sallow face, a dark eye, a neat mustache, and a pair of fresh gloves. He took off his hat, looking very grave, and pronounced Newman's name. Our hero assented and said, "You are M. de Bellegarde's friend?" "I unite with you in claiming that sad honor," said the gentleman.
'Newman, Newman, said Nicholas, laying his hand upon his shoulder: 'it was the wrong servant too. Newman's under-jaw dropped, and he gazed at Nicholas, with his sound eye fixed fast and motionless in his head. 'Don't take it to heart, said Nicholas; 'it's of no consequence; you see I don't care about it; you followed the wrong person, that's all. That WAS all.
Newman to pronounce on the soundness of his principles and inferences, with the view of getting Mr. Newman's sanction for them against more timid or more dissatisfied friends; and he would come down with great glee on objectors to some new and startling position, with the reply, "Newman says so," Every one knows from the Apologia what was Mr.
And is there any justification for Newman's confidence that this authority may make apparent innovations, such as he admits to have been made throughout the history of the Church, but no real changes?
It was necessary to write, and to write as each man felt: and he determined that each man should write and speak for himself, though working in concert and sympathy with others towards the supreme end the cause and interests of the Church. And thus were born the Tracts for the Times. For a time Mr. Palmer's line and Mr. Newman's line ran on side by side; but Mr.
Such an education, too, was outlined by Aristotle for the men of his ideal state; and Mr. Newman's picture of the probable results of it is so suggestive of what was really needed at Rome that I may quote it here.
It was in Newman's own apartment that Valentin dined, having brought his portmanteau, so that he might adjourn directly to the railway. M. Stanislas Kapp had positively declined to make excuses, and he, on his side, obviously, had none to offer. Valentin had found out with whom he was dealing.
Of course, his reasoning is all a posteriori, and from the narrowest premises, namely, from an unpleasant effect on his own nerves, to an efficient cause in the badness of Mr. Newman's translation. No quarrels, perhaps, are so bitter as those about matters of taste: hardly even is the odium theologicum, so profound as the odium æstheticum.
But he said nothing more; instead, he stormed for'ard, and worked out his rage among the stiffs. I overheard no more of the proceedings in the cabin, for I did not dare leave the wheel while Mister Lynch was on deck. But I was easier in my mind concerning Newman's fate, for what I had overheard convinced me the big fellow stood in no immediate danger of his life.
Newman's statements as to the religious character of his mind. It is difficult in retrospect to conceive of this, except as growing up with him from infancy.
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