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However, in these pages it is not proposed to enlarge upon the political aspect of the times, but rather to deal with the dramatic and domestic side of Henry's being. His Aspirations There can be no doubt that when Henry ascended the throne, he had a sincere wish to serve God and uphold the right. In his early years he was really devout and generous in almsgiving.
In those days a famine fell upon the people of Vienna; and they, as their sole remedy, thought good to send for the man of God from the neighbouring town. He went, and preached to them, too, repentance and almsgiving. The rich, it seems, had hidden up their stores of corn, and left the poor to starve. At least St.
The mighty halls which ought to have resounded to the laughter of the mistresses of Charles II were diverted to the inevitable squalor of almsgiving. The mutilated victims of the egotism and the fatuity of kings were imprisoned there together under the rules and regulations of charity, the cruellest of all rules and regulations. And all was done meanly that is, all that interested George.
Thus it comes, that even if any one performs a work which God has commanded, giving alms, for example, but without faith, such a work is not pleasing to God; for when we go back to the source from whence the almsgiving springs, which is not done of faith, then we find that it has proceeded either from vain-glory, or a desire to receive more in return, or from some other bad motive.
That forgiveness may cost a man much an amended life, the practices of prayer and fasting and almsgiving John conceives; but we are not led to think that he thought of what it might cost God. When we return to the teaching of Jesus, we find that he draws a clear and sharp line between right and wrong.
He was the son of king Bimbisara, who was one of the first royal converts to Buddhism. Ajasat murdered his father, or at least wrought his death; and was at first opposed to Sakyamuni, and a favourer of Devadatta. When converted, he became famous for his liberality in almsgiving.
When the conversation or the accomplishments of another fix the attention which was withheld from your own, when the opinion of another, with whom you fancy yourself on an equality, is put forward as deserving of being followed in preference to your own, I can imagine you possessed of sufficient self-respect to restrain any external tokens of envy: you will not insinuate, as meaner spirits would do, that the beauty, or the dress, or the accomplishments so highly extolled are preserved, cherished, and cultivated at the expense of time, kindly feelings, and the duty of almsgiving that the conversation is considered by many competent judges flippant, or pedantic, or presuming that the opinion cannot be of much value when the conduct has been in some instances so deficient in prudence.
I left to him the price of the Unicorn; he is a good and honest priest; if he still lives, there must remain to him some of it, for he would have been prudent and careful in his almsgiving.
He lost little, in the end he gained much, by the resolute stand he made against the indiscriminate almsgiving which has done so much to create and encourage pauperism in the East of London.
She is puzzled; her notion of a thank-offering was rather that of the Indians, and indeed of the Spaniards, sacrifices of human victims, and the bedizenment of the Great Spirit's sanctuary with their skulls and bones. Ayacanora could understand that: but the almsgiving she could not, till Mrs.
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