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Excerpt from Cardinal WolseyThere is little that is directly ennobling in the con templation of such a career. It may be doubted if the career of any practical statesman can be a really en nobling study if we have all its activity recorded in detail. At the best it tells us of much which seems disingenuous if not dishonest - much in which nobility of aim or the complexity of affairs has to be urged in extenuation of shifty words and ambiguous ...

Excerpt from Historical Lectures and AddressesLecture, and the lecture on Laud's Position In the History of the Church of England. The two former were published at the time of their delivery, and the latter appeared in the volume issued for the Archbishop Laud Commemora tion. The other lectures have never been.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

Excerpt from The Church and the Nation: Charges and AddressesThe first paper, on Christian Ethics, is given as a general introduction to show the way in which Dr. Creighton considered that religion must in¿uence the moral ideals of the nation. The Peterborough addresses deal, for the most part, with voluntary schools and religious educa tion generally, and with the other pressing questions of the day, Welsh Disestablishment, and the Deceased W...

Excerpt from The English National Character: Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, June 17, 1896In attempting to follow out this line of thought, it is necessary to find a starting-point. I will not venture on speculations about the in¿uence of race or climate, but will confine myself within the limits of recorded facts. I am not concerned with the origin of our national character, interesting as that may be, but with its nature and the forms i...

Excerpt from The Age of ElizabethSome men were content with the 'old state of things, either from interested motives, or from real love' for that M form of worship in which they had been born meaning and bred. Others wished to, keep the old system but make a few alterations in it: they believed the government of the Church to be the right one, and to be, moreover, quite necessary, though they thought that it had been carelessly carried on, and...

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Excerpt from The Story of Some English Shires The present volume, the Story of Some English Shires, ' was originally published by the Religious Tract Society in the year 1897. It then appeared in two forms, as an Edition de Luxe, and as a handsome illustrated volume in royal quarto. Both of these editions were sold out immediately after publication, and the book has long been out of print. But there is a strong feeling that, since the work is...

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